Sting Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Butterfly, Bee, Float

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

Funny, Heart, Warms

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

Love, Fight, Real

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya

Mouth, Wicked, Fly

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

Justice, Easy, Injustice

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Death, Cold, Whiskey

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.
Samuel Johnson

May, Him, Horse

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide

Life, Real, Person

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Phyllis McGinley

Heart, Silence, Words

I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.
Michelle Obama

Love, Good, Try

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

School, Made, Small

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

Stuck, Tail, Straw

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

Conscience, Bitter, Fault

Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
Alexander McQueen

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

Anger, Children, Show

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John

Love, Great, Death

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.
Jarvis Cocker

Problem, Lovely, Whatever

Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
Rob Sheffield

Music, Power, Movies

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

Kindness, Another, Ourselves

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

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

Happens, Snake, Stumble

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King

Moral, Social, Order

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles

Heart, Her, Pleasure

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Colin Mochrie

Change, Name, Hey

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
Jack Dee

Rain, Someone, Short

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.
Feist

Crazy, Understand, Attention

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.
Brian Cox

Nothing, Full, Eat

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.
Frank Black

Together, Put, Show

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

Focus, Easy, Attention

Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
Tatum O'Neal

Past, Lose, Memories

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