Famous quotes containing the word sting:
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
“Thou thyself hast been a libertine,
As sensual as the brutish sting itself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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 (1709–1784)