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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.