Sting Quotes

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. (George S. Patton)
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. View quote
Robert Browning
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Fame is a bee It has a song- It has a sting- Ah, too, it has a wing. View quote
Emily Dickinson
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! View quote
Dante Alighieri
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. View quote
Martha Beck
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting. (Ozzy Osbourne)
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat? View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting. View quote
Henry Taylor
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams. View quote
Robert E. Howard
I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting? View quote
John Mayer
It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks. View quote
Sara Teasdale
Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah there is the sting of life. View quote
Oscar Wilde
But by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang, that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. View quote
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jug, jug, pu wee, to witta woo! View quote
Thomas Nashe
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting. (Derren Brown)
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul. View quote
Joanna Baillie
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. View quote
Florence King
Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me. View quote
Mark Twain
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 something. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson