Steerpike Quote by Mervyn Peake

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller

“You are a clever little monster,' said the Doctor, tossing off another cognac and placing the glass upon the table with a click. 'A…

— Mervyn Peake

“I wanted them to be terrible, hideous monsters. But they aren’t. They are petty men who ruin lives and don’t even notice.”

— Pierce Brown

“We can't continue treating people like monsters and then wondering why they have so few reservations about doing monstrous things.”

— T.J. Kirk

“We are all capable of becoming something monstrous.”

— Cyraus Foldger

“It's monstrous, what one person will do to another.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free. If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.”

— Sarah Diemer

“If you beget a monster of a child it could prove you were rather monstrous yourself.”

— Nick Joaquín

“All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies... It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and as it…

— Richard Norwood English Puritan 1638

“You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?”

— G.K. Chesterton

“There are worse things in this world than monsters, and somehow, they always manage to find me.”

— Kara Thomas

“...occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.”

— Sarra Manning