Beast Quotes - Page 14

• To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fool, Sensible

  William Shakespeare (1976). “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”, p.38, Heinemann

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• She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetables are good for you,' she said, and added caressingly, 'They make you grow up big and strong.' He smiled, showing a great many teeth. 'You see why I wish to eat no more vegetables.

  Robin McKinley

  Strong, Growing Up, Boys

  Robin McKinley (2014). “Rose Daughter”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• Beauty loved him more than anything, her Beast boy, but, secretly, sometimes, she wished he would have remained a Beast.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Boys, Sometimes

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• A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Teacher, Men, Gentleman

  Jane Feather, Sabrina Jeffries, Julia London (2008). “Snowy Night with a Stranger”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

  Douglas Adams

  Grandmother, Order, Three

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• So I know you must have a plan and this wolf—" "Beast," Min said. "—frog, whatever, can't fit your plan." "He's not a frog," Min said. "I kissed him and he did not turn into a prince."He turned into a god. No, he didn't . "Look, I'm never going to see him again, so everybody can relax.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Relax, Looks, Frogs

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.118, Macmillan

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• I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Firsts, Rate

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.354, e-artnow

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• Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, School, Men

  Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss (2012). “The Long Hard Road Out of Hell”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.

  Anna Sewell

  Men, Hands, People

  Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow

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• Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

  H. G. Wells

  Eye, Space, Mind

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.1.

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• swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.” Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.” “I will kill him.” “The Beast Lord or Barabas?” “Both.

  Ilona Andrews

  Might, Majesty, Lord

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.124, Penguin

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• Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Snakes, Said

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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• Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.- William Herondale

  Cassandra Clare

  Ducks, Littles, Never Trust

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• She had forgotten them all; forgotten Richard down in the mud, and the marquis and his foolish crossbow, and the world. She was delighted and transported, in a perfect place, the world she lived for. Her world contained two things: Hunter, and the Beast. The Beast knew that too. It was the perfect match, the hunter and the hunted. And who was who, and which was which, only time would reveal; time and the dance.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Perfect, Hunters

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• Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

  Steven Moffat

  Men, Might, Hello

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• Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.

  Iain Pears

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.237, Penguin

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• The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.

  Ilona Andrews

  Doubt, Way, Lord

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.246, Penguin

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• I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Two, Moors

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [117]

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• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.565, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People might walk through me. And what is this moment of time, this particular day in which I have found myself caught? The growl of traffic might be any uproar - forest trees or the roar of wild beasts. Time has whizzed back an inch or two on its reel; our short progress has been cancelled. I think also that our bodies are in truth naked. We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Thinking, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.691, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

  William Golding

  Mean, People, No Fear

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.84, Penguin

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

  Dante Alighieri

  Twilight, Men, Soul

  Dante Alighieri (1998). “Inferno”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

  Dee Brown

  Air, Water, Bird

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• I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

  David Gemmell

  Loyalty, Stupid, Believe

  David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Shield Of Thunder”, p.371, Random House

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