Edward Topsell Quotes

• There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

  Edward Topsell

  Elephants, World, Beast

  9 Copy quote

• God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.

  Edward Topsell

  Needs, World, Unicorn

  Edward Topsell (1967). “The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects”

  17 Copy quote

• Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

  Edward Topsell

  Dragons, Kind, Serpent

  7 Copy quote

• Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

  Edward Topsell

  Scorpions, Virtue, Force

  "The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.

  12 Copy quote

• Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

  Edward Topsell

  Cat, House, Retired

  Edward Topsell (1981). “Histories of Beasts”, Burnham Incorporated Pub

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin