Stinging Quotes

40 quotes by 36 authors

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not… — Chanakya
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge… — Dale Carnegie
Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. . . [T]wo or three stinging strokes on the legs or… — James Dobson
There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his… — Aesop
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. — Irvin S. Cobb
For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof.… — Gillian Flynn
Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like… — H.G. Wells
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and… — Ernest Dimnet
On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking,… — Dwayne Johnson
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.… — Camille Paglia
How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a… — Kenneth E. Hagin
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your… — O. Henry
I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. ...… — Robert E. Howard
Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the… — Marge Piercy
A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next… — Lewis Thomas
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and… — Janet Fitch
I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but… — John Green
I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.… — John Fowles

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