Wasps Quotes
51 quotes by 49 authors
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Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised…
— Laurence Sterne
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My family, we're all WASPs.
— R. James Woolsey, Jr.
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I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a…
— James Ellroy
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I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps,…
— Francis Quarles
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
— Alice Weaver Flaherty
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Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the…
— Charles Darwin
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'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
— Pope Paul VI
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
— Jonathan Swift
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He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.
— Sid Waddell
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
— Norton Juster
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Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,…
— William Shakespeare
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp…
— Rachel Caine
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This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set…
— Douglas Adams
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I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like…
— James Patterson
Who Wrote These Wasps Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 51 Wasps Quotes, led by these top contributors: