Wasps Quotes

51 Wasps quotes by 49 unique authors

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. — Alice Weaver Flaherty
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
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
'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
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. — Pope Paul VI
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift
He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. — Sid Waddell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?”… — Dave Barry
And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. — Dylan Thomas
Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . . — Pablo Neruda
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof… — Daniel Handler
Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic. — Gary Barlow
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now,… — Mark Twain
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. — Amanda Harlech
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas… — Alice Oswald
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions… — Rick Perlstein
Loosing someone you love is like being stung by a wasp . It hurts like hell and makes you become affraid ov wasps . Dont… — Iain Taylor

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