Beastly Quotes

• People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.

  Alex Flinn

  Beauty, People, Looks

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, Matter, Beautiful Things

  Alex Flinn (2009). “Beastly”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Nature, Anger, Men

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• Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

  Alex Flinn

  Moving, Things In Life, Time To Move On

  Alex Flinn (2015). “Four Beastly Kendra Chronicles Collection: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching, Mirrored”, p.74, HarperCollins

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• Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

  Philip Stubbs

  Football, Hurt, Violence

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• War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Proof, Ability

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Three, Quarters

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

  Sid Vicious

  Nice, Friendly, Sides

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• What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

  Alex Flinn

  Romance, Letters, Love Letter

  "Fictional character: Lindy". "Beastly", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

  Alex Flinn

  Soul, Feelings, Should

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• Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

  Alex Flinn

  Girl, Princess, Life Is Like

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• Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

  Alex Flinn

  People, Judging, Important

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• I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

  Winston Churchill

  Hate, People, Famine

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.328, RosettaBooks

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• I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Couple, Tired, World

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• Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Travel, Morning, People

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• Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results and effects. This chain of action between the food we eat and the results of our actions highlights the fact that meat eating leads to beastly actions and the concomitant evil effects.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Evil

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• Eschew all those beastly adjectives.

  Roald Dahl

  Adjectives

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• The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved.

  R. Lee Wrights

  Government, People, Growth

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• As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.

  Douglas Adams

  Animal, Borders, Benefits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hands, Desire, Purpose

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 16, 1968.

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• My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Rocks, Wife

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• How beastly the bourgeois is
  especially the male of the species

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Class, Males

  "How Beastly the Bourgeois Is" l. 1 (1929)

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• I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Drinking, Writing, Gentleman

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.416, OUP Oxford

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