After Quote by Richard Virenque

“He was horrible and fascinating all at once, like a scorpion prepared to strike, all angles and sharp lines and menace.”

— Kelly Creagh

“This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.”

— Anne Stuart

“Venom didn't answer until they'd crossed teh street, his body moving with liquid grace. Holly couldn't help it; she watched him. There was something…

— Nalini Singh

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

— Scott Westerfeld

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

— Orson Scott Card

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present…

— Robert Toombs

“He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The mind that broods o'er guilty woes Is like a scorpion girt by fire.

— Azgraybebly Josland

“...I'm momentarily transfixed, torn between curiosity and fear. I can pull it up the gently sloping mud bank, but then what? Already thought is…

— Jeremy Wade

“Like the scorpion said to the maiden as she lay dying, ‘You knowed I was poison when you picked me up.’ ”

— Stephen King

“Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich