Monstrosity Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
-
Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological…
— Murray Rothbard
-
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and…
— John Dewey
-
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built…
— Oliver Sacks
-
If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
— Nigel Farage
-
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of…
— Michelangelo
-
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law of…
— Edward Forbes
-
As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the…
— George Bernard Shaw
-
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
— Gustave Flaubert
-
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity,…
— Gustave Flaubert
-
Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up…
— David Limbaugh
-
If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my…
— Gustave Flaubert
-
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the…
— Sam Harris
-
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
— Eric Hoffer
-
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their…
— Andrzej Sapkowski
-
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
— Jean Genet
-
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
— Mary MacLane
-
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
— Jack Kerouac
-
What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new…
— Michael Grant
-
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction…
— Glen Duncan
-
This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity
— Kiersten White
Who Wrote These Monstrosity Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 46 Monstrosity Quotes, led by these top contributors: