Beast Quotes - Page 13

• The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Animal, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?

  Ilona Andrews

  Kind, Lord, Kitties

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire

  William S. Burroughs

  Karma, Queens, Stupid

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• Let's have a partnership, Kate. I offer honesty, Kate. I don't have have outrun the Beast Lord I just pissed off, Kate. I only have to outrun you and hit you with my car as I hightail it out of here.

  Ilona Andrews

  Honesty, Car, Pissed Off

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.149, Penguin

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• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Simple, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

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• But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

  Karen Kingsbury

  People, Way, Sometimes

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• One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

  Angela Carter

  Night, Woods, Howl

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

  Lawrence Hill

  Writing, Heart, Sleep

  Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

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• Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Fickle, Affection

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1450, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• (...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

  Ray Bradbury

  Smile, Cat, Pride

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• Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

  Jeannette Walls

  Angel, Perfect, Steps

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Madness, Corpses

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• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

  Upton Sinclair

  Taken, Men, Games

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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• No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

  William Shakespeare

  Fierce, Pity, Knows

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 71

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• Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

  J.R. Ward

  Making Love, Different, Mary

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1104, Penguin

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• You've heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you've never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn't happen, not even in a story-teller's tale.

  Karen Maitland

  Love, Fall, Men

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• Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Men, Jane

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• The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

  Clive Barker

  Alive, February, Grey

  Clive Barker (2014). “The Thief of Always”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nausea, Alive, Unbearable

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Trying, Nowhere To Turn

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• Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Sleep, Animal, Understanding

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• As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fall, Shadow, Phantoms

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

  Justina Chen

  Jobs, Worry, Way

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• I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father's death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces? Some preachers will say, well, that is superstitious "claptrap." My answer is this: Preacher, go to your Bible and read Luke 8: 26-33

  Charles Portis

  Horse, Father, Believe

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.40, A&C Black

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Silly, Mean

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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