Beast Quotes

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

Writing is the beast unto itself.

I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

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.'

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

I am a beast!

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.