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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

  Theophrastus

  Men, Lazy, Sloth

  Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe, Theophrastus (1713). “The characters, or, the manners of the present age”, p.41

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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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• Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Miracle, Looks

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• One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Hands, Law, Want

  The Question of Max ch. 5 (1976).

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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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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• 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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• The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Memories, Devil, Cherish

  1928 Marsden. Strange Interlude, pt.1, act 2.

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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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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Fortune, Businessman

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