Sting Quotes

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll.

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

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

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

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

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.

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.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

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

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

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.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

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

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

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

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.