Monsters Quotes - Page 9

• The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

  Oscar Wilde

  New York, Dine In, Philadelphia

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1023, GENERAL PRESS

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• Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Angel, Important, Agendas

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.149, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

  William Shakespeare

  Ingrates, Being Me, Should

  William Shakespeare (1834). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.11

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• Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

  William Penn

  Roots, Evil, Wells

  William Penn (1839). “Fruits of solitude ... New edition”, p.23

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• There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

  Alexander Pope

  Acting, Pits, Wit

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304

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• What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

  Denis Diderot

  Order, Survival

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• Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it.

  Kristin Cashore

  Thanks, Admiration, Caught

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.

  Heather Brewer

  Home, School, Aunt

  Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”

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• For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

  Walker Percy

  Angel, Men, Self

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• Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Arms, Faces

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Flirt”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. "No. even revenge is too great an honor for you." As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.

  Marianne Curley

  Revenge, Fall, Night

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Way, Sometimes

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• It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Princess, Winning, Dragons

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• Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1505, Penguin

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• Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a lion's mane. The front half of its body was a lion, but the back end was sleek, brown, and fat - a hippo, I decided. The odd bit was, the animal was tiny - I mean, no larger than an average poodle, which I suppose made him a hippodoodle.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Animal, Average

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• Your boyfriend is…well, way buff. Monster buff. Lord, king buff. (Sunshine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kings, Sunshine, Your Boyfriend

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• The wand ricocheted through the swarm, thumping six, seven, eight of the little monsters before returning to Carter’s hand. “Not bad,” I said. “Keep it up!

  Rick Riordan

  Eight, Hands, Littles

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Fighting, Macedonia

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Blood, Order

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

  Gregory Maguire

  World, Birth, Made

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

  Rick Riordan

  Rabbits, Lions, Legs

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.282, Penguin UK

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• Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

  China Mieville

  Squids, Giants, Fiction

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• Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Healing, Chocolate

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Giving

  Orson Scott Card (2003). “Wyrms”, p.68, Macmillan

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