“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) English statesman and poet
Part iii, canto ii. Quoted by Walt Whitman in Roaming in Thought.
Lucile (1860)
“4769. The Sting of a Reproach is the Truth of it.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1746) : The Sting of a Reproach, is the Truth of it.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
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Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“How still it is!
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts' trill.”
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静けさや
岩に滲み入る
蝉の声
shizukesaya
iwa ni shimiiru
semi no koe
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“You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) French painter
Diaz, quoted by Muther; cited in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty, Arthur Hoeber – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 138
according to Richard Muther this was the characteristic expression which Diaz used to Millet
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Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist
From a letter ("Louisa M. Alcott to the American Woman Suffrage Association", October 1885) in support of women's voting rights, quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, 1883-1900 (1902), p. 412.