Beast Quotes
880 quotes by 651 authors
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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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
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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
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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
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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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
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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
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
— Peter Abelard
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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
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Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
— John Dickinson
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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
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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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