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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

  John Mortimer

  Hurt, Children, Hate

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

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• Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Twists

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Lying, Dust, Atheism

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

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Fortune, Businessman

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• A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

  Edward Lear

  Music, Insane, Roaring

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

  Storm Jameson

  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Art, Lying, Training

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• Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

  Tasha Alexander

  Might, Fascinating, Dies

  Tasha Alexander (2009). “And Only to Deceive”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Moon, Night

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