Quotes About Stung

#1. My bees cannot sting." "You mean they haven't stung anyone yet." "Is there a difference?" "What do you do with the honey?" "What honey?" "From the bees." U Ba looked at me. "I wouldn't touch it. It belongs to the bees.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#2. My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.

Anne Sexton

#3. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

#4. Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."
Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that."
"Thanks," he said dryly.

Judith McNaught

#5. Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

Idries Shah

#6. She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard.

Paolo Giordano

#7. When the present stung her, she sought her antidote in the future, which was as sure to hold achievement as the dying flower to hold the fruit when its petals wither.

Elspeth Huxley

#8. I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

Jonathan Davis

#9. It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.

Anne Carson

#10. I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.

Radical Face

#11. No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you."
Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?"
Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something.

Sarah J. Maas

#12. Because no matter what happens, you are going to get hurt in life. But it's so much better to have jumped into the ocean and gotten stung by a jellyfish than to never have felt the salt water between your toes at all.

T.K. Leigh

#13. Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.

Dean King

#14. Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that he, in response, refused to do part from the status quo enough to considering using antiseptic techniques.

Candice Millard

#15. The effects of her words stung me, and after she stole away I stood a long while before her looking glass, studying my profile, the line I cut in this world of men and ladies.

Patrick DeWitt

#16. She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.

Helen Fielding

#17. My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

Dan Rather

#18. Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there - tears, ay Mother! Or maybe they were in my own eyes.

Deborah Wheeler

#19. Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.

Kristin Cashore

#21. What am I going to do?"
"What?"
"I don't have anything else to daydream about. Now what am I going to do?
Hawk felt his gut get tight, his chest swell and something stung his throat.
"I'll find a way to keep you occupied, baby.

Kristen Ashley

#22. Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

Henry Ward Beecher

#23. Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.

Quintilian

#24. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!

William Shakespeare

#25. Odd that you should choose to be a midwife, having never experienced birth yourself." In other circumstances the words would have stung. She thought, Do not physicians provide medicaments for illnesses they have never suffered?

Roberta Rich

#26. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.

Mina V. Esguerra

#27. They could be gone for years, healed over and laid to rest, and then out of nowhere the gun smoke stung my eyes, the wet jungle invaded my nose, and I had to bury them all over again. You could leave a war, but it never left you.

Mindy Mejia

#28. Why didn't you tell me?" Delia says, stung.
"Why don't any of us tell you anything?" I respond. "We love you.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed when you and I were young.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.

Terry Pratchett

#32. I'm loyal to my Clan, Lionpaw told himself. I shouldn't have to prove it. But still, the bitter taste of his lie stung in his throat.

Erin Hunter

#33. One of the worst things about losing my mother at the age I did was how very much there was to regret. Small things that stung now: all the times I'd scorned her kindness by rolling my eyes or physically recoiled in response to her touch;

Cheryl Strayed

#34. Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

Sara Sheridan

#35. Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

John Madden

#36. I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once.

Missy Elliott

#37. Sean was stung. "I do not fuck everything that has a pulse," he said haughtily. "I have my standards. I limit myself to endoskeletal organisms. I always go for vertebrates. And I dont't do reptiles. Ever.

Shannon McKenna

#38. Is it because in my soul I'm just as much a murderer? he asked himself. Something remote, but burning, stung his soul.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. Even the bees I'd swear were sent to protect us in the delicate business of hives and honey are stung to silence by the news that something winged has lost its flight.

Kristen Henderson

#40. Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.
"Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it." As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#41. A grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William Walton

#42. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

Robert H. Jackson

#43. That's how it is for women," I said, stung into honesty. "It's not what one would choose - I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.

Philippa Gregory

#44. Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods,
Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

William Shakespeare

#45. Shock stung her into a quivering mass of pleasure when he captured one of her hands and fed it down to the velvet-smooth thickness of his penis, then urged her to stroke it between her legs.

Michelle Reid

#46. I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel

#47. I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials

Ann Everett

#48. And with the smallest intake of breath he had painted me a picture. Ash that stung your tongue like poisoned snowflakes and breaths of air that burned your lungs without fire

Quil Carter

#49. Listen, Hermione, I can tell it's not a girl. I can just tell."
"The truth is that you don't think a girl would have been clever enough," said Hermione angrily.
"How can I have hung round with you for five years and not think girls are clever?" said Harry, stung by this.

J.K. Rowling

#50. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed.

James Joyce

#51. The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room.

Laurie R. King

#52. The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked. And while I was running up the hill, my dad stayed and got stung, to give me time to run away.

Neil Gaiman

#53. Would you rather be stung by a thousand wasps or sleep in the pigpen? Answer one or the other! You have to answer one or the other. Grownup versions may be more sophisticated, as, Are you a Democrat or a Republican? The

Thomas A. Harris

#54. When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Joseph Joubert

#55. If you get stung, lick it," I said. "Bees have over two hundred pheromones they use to communicate with each other, and they leave some on your skin when they sting to alert the other bees that there's danger.

Karen White

#56. There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp;
When they asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.

W.S. Gilbert

#57. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.

William Shakespeare

#58. You could be stung, but you could also sting back. He believed that sincerely.

Stephen King

#59. On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

Robert Browning

#60. Her lungs stung. "I came here to marry a prince," she said nonsensically.

"My dear, in all things but title you already have.

Katharine Ashe

#61. of the scorpion and the frog? The frog carried the scorpion on its back as they crossed the river. The scorpion stung the frog, and as they both were drowning, the frog asked the scorpion why he'd done it." "Because I'm a scorpion,

Skye Warren

#62. Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?

Coco Ho

#63. You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.

Cassandra Clare

#64. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Jessica Mitford

#65. Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

Russell Brand

#66. She glanced at the man quickly. "Thank you." She meant to say more, but something was caught in her throat. Her eyes stung. "Weep not, proud Diana," Maximus murmured. "The moon will not allow it." "No." She agreed, swiping fiercely at her cheeks. "There's no need for tears yet.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#67. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#68. 'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-'
Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it.
Wil's eyes stung.
'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'

Max Barry

#69. Adela you are as smart as a boy." This remark stung, because if it meant that I was as smart as my brothers, I was still destined for idiocy.

Anonymous

#70. She told me not to even try. Said you were ... as frigid as a nun and as cold as ice. That one actually stung.

Jennifer Ashley

#71. And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

Thomas Mann

#72. My eyes stung as they always did whenever I saw Cary happy. Dr. Travis was the closest thing to a father that he had and I knew how much Cary loved him.

Sylvia Day

#73. you were temptingly beautiful
but stung when i got close

Rupi Kaur

#74. Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.

Boris Pasternak

#75. Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it's really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic.

James Jean-Pierre

#76. Good night, Lisa. Sleep with the angels."
Her eyes stung from quick tears. It had been her mother's nightly benediction: Sleep with the angels. But then he added words her mother never had: "Then come back to earth and sleep with your devil, who would burn in hell for one night in your arms.

Karen Marie Moning

#77. When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us.

Stephenie Meyer

#78. Don't run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!

Israelmore Ayivor

#79. Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him.

Oscar Wilde

#80. The jump did not go as planned. My father gashed his head and tore his parachute on the tail of the plane. He hit the water hard and submerged. When he surfaced, his head was bleeding, he was vomiting from swallowing seawater, and he had been stung by a Portuguese man-of-war.

George W. Bush

#81. I'd pretend their words were water and let them roll off my back. Now, I'm nobody's duck, and their words stung a whole lot more than water.

Nikki Grimes

#82. All the same, Thomas now had a plan. As bad as it was, he had a plan.
They needed more clues about the code. They needed MEMORIES.
So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.

James Dashner

#83. If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

Francis De Sales

#84. That sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.

Albert Camus

#85. Tallkit shivered. This was only his second sunrise outside the nursery, and his paws pricked with excitement. A light dusting of snow had turned the camp white, frosting the tussocky grass and thick heather walls. The freezing air stung his nose. He fluffed up his fur.

Erin Hunter

#86. You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.

Dov Davidoff

#87. Stung again by this queen bee of the Loren clan, Marissa shook it off and retorted, See, that's just it. I don't always love Jack Storm. But with all my heart I love Jack Loren.

Lisa Gillis

#88. Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

Eaton Stannard Barrett

#89. All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

Megan Whalen Turner

#90. A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Idries Shah

#91. Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home ...

Lesley Wheeler

#92. Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Laurence Sterne

#93. With bee-stung lips and bolt-on boobs,

Terry Hayes

#94. If Sting retires, would he have to change his name to Stung?

Colin Mochrie

#95. I know you didn't feel them, and when you spoke them they stung you. I know because I know you. I forgive because my heart has not the room to deface you.

Coco J. Ginger

#96. It was the emotional equivalent of being stung in the pride by a jellyfish.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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

Colin Mochrie

#98. As they entered the camp, Lionpaw raced to meet them. "Wow!" He stared at Bluepaw's bloodied ear. "Does it hurt?" "A little," Bluepaw lied. It stung like fury.

Erin Hunter

#99. Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.

William Romaine

#100. I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn't let him pee on my leg, which he'd heard was an antidote to the sting.

Huntley Fitzpatrick