Wasp Quotes

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

'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 but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

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

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 spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.