All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

— Marcelo Rios

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

— George Washington

“Courts. To be seen as you would see the Tower of London or menagerie of Versailles with their lions, tigers, hyænas, and other beasts…

— Albert Jay Nock

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

— Thomas Carlyle

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its…

— William James

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of…

— Willard Gaylin

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous…

— Abraham Cowley

Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years, Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe Are brackish with the salt of human tears! Thou shoreless…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

— Charles Spurgeon

The night belongs to beasts of prey, and always has. It's easy to forget that when you're indoors, protected by light and solid walls.

— Cornelia Funke

“[T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they…

— George Washington

“In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.”

— Neal Stephenson

“So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey.”

— H.G. Wells

Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and,…

— William James

An old cat sports not with her prey.

— George Herbert