Beast Quotes

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other… — Diane Ackerman
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. — Brigitte Bardot
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset. — Cate Blanchett
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the… — Daniel Boone
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. — Robert Browning
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and… — A. S. Byatt
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks… — A. S. Byatt
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. — Albert Camus
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its… — George Washington Carver
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. — Peter Abelard
All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own… — Mario Puzo
It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching… — Emmeline Pankhurst

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