Nettles Quote by Christian Bök

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my…

— Anna Akhmatova

The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck…

— William Shakespeare

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

— Fiona Wood

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched…

— Stella Gibbons

A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples, And…

— Czeslaw Milosz

The world's a nettle; disturb it, it stings: Grasp it firmly, it stings not.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

— William Shakespeare

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

— Junichiro Tanizaki