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What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star

— Emily Dickinson

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

— Victor Hugo

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

— Herman Melville

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

— Eartha Kitt

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

— Plato

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily…

— Anonymous

They are the strangest of creatures, the most hurtful, boastful, crude, awkward, and pitiful... but we can't help but adore the imperfection that God…

— Superman

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

— Ben Jonson

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

— Ammianus Marcellinus

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted…

— Frans de Waal

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are very short,…

— Dalai Lama