Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

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

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

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.

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

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

Train like a beauty look like a beast

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

A short while later, as I stare down at the bodies of the six men I have just killed, I cannot help but wonder: Do I love killing? Of a certainty, I love the way my body and weapons move as one; I revel in the knowledge of where to strike for maximum impact. And of a certainty, I am good at it. But so is Beast. He is perhaps even better at it than I am, and yet for all that, he feels as bright and golden as a lion who roars in the face of his enemies and stalks them in broad daylight. Whereas I—I am a dark panther, slinking unseen among the shadows, silent and deadly. But we are both great cats, are we not? And do not even bright things cast a shadow?

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

Being a werewolf, an alpha more so, isn't about being aggressive over others but controlling yourself, the wolf's wild virus inside my DNA, and emotions that comes with the beast.

Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.

CHILDREN Are Like ANGELS And On Earth, ANGELS Have No Color.... It's The Society To Blame That Teaches Racism, Turning An ANGLE To A Civilized Beast While They Are Growing Up....

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

As he shook off his servant’s grip and staggered heavily to his feet, the sunlight streaming through the outside door struck him full in the face. Samantha gasped. A fresh scar, still red and angry, bisected the corner of his left eye and descended down his cheek in a jagged lightning bolt, drawing the skin around it taut. It had once been an angel’s face with the sort of masculine beauty reserved only for princes and seraphim.