Beasts Quotes

306 quotes by 245 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts. — John Stuart Blackie
You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the… — Baron de Montesquieu
There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to… — Celeste De Blasis
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies… — Edward Dahlberg
Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other. — Malcolm De Chazal
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put… — William Shakespeare
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. — Ben Jonson
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. — Plotinus

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