Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our…

— Julia McNair Wright

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung…

— Idries Shah

Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is…

— William Shakespeare

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

— Jean de La Fontaine

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a…

— Anonymous

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within…

— Charles Darwin

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and…

— Laurence Sterne

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were…

— Camille Paglia

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid,…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

At what point is a wasp ever going to have a chat with a spider?

— Karl Pilkington

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but…

— Aristotle

It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless -…

— Ann Coulter

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

— Jean Henri Fabre

“After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps’ nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking “Uh-oh.”

— Fannie Flagg

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

— Gary Barlow