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?

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

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

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

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

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

My family, we're all WASPs.

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

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.