prick quotes

Le parfum de mille roses ne pla|"t qu'un instant; mais la douleur que cause une seule de leurs e  pines dure longtemps apre'  s la piq u" re. The perfume of a thousand roses pleases only for an instant; but the pain caused bya single one of their thorns lasts a long time after the prick.

-Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
  Paul et Virginie.

What thing is love for (well I wot) love is a thing. It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing; It is a fire, it is a coal Whose flame creeps in at every hole.

- George Peele
c.1591 The Hunting of Cupid.

Know that famous proverb? When the prick stands up, the brains get buried in the ground!

- Philip Milton Roth
  Portnoy's Complaint,'Cunt Crazy'.