Animals Quote by James Boswell

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

— Upton Sinclair

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each…

— Ugo Betti

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with…

— Daniel Webster

Man is the creature of circumstances.

— Robert Owen

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

— Mark Twain

Man is an imitative creature.

— Friedrich Schiller

Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself…

— Michel de Montaigne

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who…

— Robert Southey

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and…

— Matthew Henry

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

— Albert Camus

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

— Anonymous

“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?”

— Bram Stoker