I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says:… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get… — Armie Hammer Copy Share Image
Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
