Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or defeated:
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
“Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the “dragon,” in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)