Creatures Quotes

2516 quotes by 1578 authors

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his… — Herman Melville
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides
We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common… — Stendhal
The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as… — Kabir
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him. — William Godwin
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us… — Norman Mailer
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man… — Thor Heyerdahl
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their… — Joseph de Maistre
Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending… — Ugo Betti
To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman. — Elinor Glyn
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium… — Richard Leakey
The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other… — Stella McCartney
When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I… — Chris O'Dowd
Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be,… — Laozi
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one… — Tamora Pierce
As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey. — Maggie Q

Who Wrote These Creatures Quotes

1,578 authors contributed a total of 2,516 Creatures Quotes, led by these top contributors: