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Wasps Quotes

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

Wei Wu Wei
Window Panes, Half, Wasps
"Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

Sid Waddell
Speed, Wasps, Predictable

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Dylan Thomas
Book, Wasps
Dylan Thomas, “A Child's Christmas In Wales”

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Alice Weaver Flaherty
Ideas, Skins, Wasps

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

Karl Pilkington
Spiders, Wasps
"The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast (Season 1, Episode 3), December 19, 2005.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

John Tenniel
Art, Wigs, Wasps
"The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.

My family, we're all WASPs.

R. James Woolsey, Jr.
My Family, Wasps

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Agnes Repplier
Passion, Political, Wasps
Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

Kay Redfield Jamison
California, Cold, Wasps
Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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