Quotes of: Stings Keyword

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

The Taming of the Shrew

Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.

Mehmet Murat ildan

No one wants to lose, period. It should hurt, it should sting, and you don't want to feel that feeling again.

Hope Solo

Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Emily Dickinson

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.

John C. Hawkes

Johnny Hooker: You're right, Henry. It's not enough. But [laughs] Johnny Hooker: it's close!

The Sting

Kid Twist: Dukey, if this thing blows up, the Feds will be the least of our problems.

The Sting

you know how I know I’m a girl? tears, sudden unbidden tears stinging my eyeballs

akua mercy

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Victoria Wood

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Walter Savage Landor

You land a second strike, this time just on my left cheek. It feels hard already and stings like hell. I imagine the red mark it has left on my behind as I thank you. As the belt catches my right buttock, I squeeze my eyes shut. I know my tears are c...

Hide & Seek

I want out of this place. With no reminders." It stings - sulphur tears in cinnamon rain.

Cinnamon Rain

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

At the King's Command

I’m trained in sarcasm. It’s like karate, only the sting lasts longer.

Sleepwalking is restercise

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

Maya Angelou

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

William Cowper

It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

Complicated Creatures

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Lord Byron