Bees Quote by Cyril Connolly

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

— Anonymous

A bee will knowingly risk its own life just to cause you a little pain. I can totally relate to that feeling.

— Hussein Nishah

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct.…

— Francis Bacon

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

— John Lyly

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

— Shannon Hale

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“...women make the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of…

— Sue Monk Kidd

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

— Vita Sackville-West