Waspish Quotes

#1. I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Michelle Paver

#2. If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

William Shakespeare

#3. Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.

Margaret Pargeter

#4. It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

Henry Ward Beecher

#5. Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.

Nathan Myhrvold

#6. I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Henry Taylor

#7. His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all the more. Vivacious, effusive, and very loving in the early days, over the years she had, like a stale wine that turns to vinegar, grown ill-humoured, waspish, and nervy.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. Must I observe you? Must I stand
& crouch
Under your testy humour?
By the gods,
You shall digest the venom of
your spleen,
Though it do split you, for, from this
day forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea,
for my laughter, when you are waspish.

William Shakespeare

#9. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

George Saunders

#10. Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.

Jim McKay

#11. Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

Daniel Snyder

#12. There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Richard Armour

#13. When one felt like a wasp, one's main inclination was to sting.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

Clive Owen

#15. You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

Ray Lewis

#16. The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

Colin Firth