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

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

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

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Robert Toombs

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

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

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