Beast Quotes

880 Beast quotes by 628 unique authors

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the… — C.S. Lewis
I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. — C.S. Lewis
The prospect of change is a many-fanged beast, my dear. — Christopher Moore
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation… — Dylan Thomas
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. — Isaac Asimov
If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair,… — Vladimir Nabokov
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman--a rope over an abyss. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Can't all beasts be tamed? — Robin McKinley
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed. — Ben Jonson
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a… — Thomas Jefferson
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast — Ruskin Bond
This book will prove the following ten facts: 1. A Goon is a being who melts into the foreground and sticks there. 2. Pigs have… — Diana Wynne Jones
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury
The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill… — Kelley Armstrong
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. — Dr. Seuss
Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its… — Rene Descartes
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and… — W. Somerset Maugham
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned… — Michael Chabon
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason… — William Golding
Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that… — Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. "Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
for there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men — Herman Melville

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