Beast Quote by Osbert Sitwell

We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace…

— Rick Riordan

“Now these were the days before the Andals came, and long before the women fled across the narrow sea from the cities of the…

— George R.R. Martin

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

“As usual the empty-headed were loudest in proclaiming their shallow explanation that the fever raging in the hearts and minds of the survivors was…

— Gustav Meyrink

“More monsters kept appearing – karpoi grain spirits swirling out of the grass, gryphons diving from the sky, lumpy clay humanoids that made Jason…

— Rick Riordan

“they have so fraid us with bull beggers, spirits, witches, urchens, elves, hags, fairies, satyrs, pans, faunes, syrens, kit with the can'sticke, tritons, centaurs,…

— Reginald Scot

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

— David Copperfield

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres…

— Washington Irving

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still…

— Joseph Jacobs

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

— Alison Croggon