Beasts Quotes
306 quotes by 245 authors
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Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a…
— Cassandra Clare
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Kreacher said nothing,†said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, “and there’s its twin, unnatural little beasts they…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
— Stephen Fry
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest…
— Oscar Wilde
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Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
— Jeannette Walls
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said…
— Jonathan Stroud
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
— Dante Alighieri
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A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way…
— Justina Chen
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I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was…
— Charles Portis
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A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and…
— H.G. Wells
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Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale
— Cassandra Clare
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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality…
— Iain Pears
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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
— C.S. Lewis
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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
— Virginia Woolf
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To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the…
— Dee Brown
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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for…
— David Gemmell
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