Stung Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. — Robert Browning
It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those… — Michel de Montaigne
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death… — Charles Dickens
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you… — John Oliver
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in… — Russell Brand
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. — Missy Elliot
Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day? — Coco Ho
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his… — Eaton Stannard Barrett
That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment… — Robert H. Jackson
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter,… — Crescent Dragonwagon
The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we… — Robert H. Jackson
Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ. — William Romaine
Whenever anyone says "I can't," it makes me wish he'd get stung to death by about ten thousand bees. When he says "I'll try," five… — Jack Handey
I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes… — Radical Face
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to… — Idries Shah
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised… — Laurence Sterne
Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being… — Zelig Pliskin
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice,… — Henry Ward Beecher
If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal,… — Saint Francis de Sales

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