“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew
Source: The Taming of the Shrew
“I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting.”
Act I, sc. 1.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
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From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting." by Henry Taylor?
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English playwright and poet 1800–1886Related quotes
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