Top 49 A Wild Beast Quotes
#1. For desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
Aristotle.
#2. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.
Alex Flinn
#3. Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
Saint John Chrysostom
#4. No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God, a heaven. He forgets every thing in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds.
Harriet Jacobs
#5. But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
#6. Leave your books alone. Aren't you ashamed? Man is a wild beast, and wild beasts don't read.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#7. When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.
Herman Melville
#8. ...the horse is by no means a 'wild beast' or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons.
Alois Podhajsky
#9. I want to drop to all fours and bay like a wild thing drunk on being hungry and strong, a beast that could fuck for days without cease if I could only find someone that could take it as hard and long a I can give it.
Karen Marie Moning
#10. Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#11. The human heart is a wild and bruised beast and often acts accordingly.
N.M. Kelby
#12. What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs attention and nurturing. If people are always running off and doing other projects, which has been the case, somebody has to be there for stability.
Paul Stanley
#13. Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle.
#14. I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
John Calvin
#15. I've finally decided to write about profit for a change
But before I really started I already started to feel lame
Baby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed
Criss Jami
#16. If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault.
Jane Austen
#17. What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
#18. We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
John Chrysostom
#20. Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
Philemon
#21. Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.
Minae Mizumura
#22. God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
Saint Ambrose
#23. Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
Jonathan Swift
#24. Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
Ben Jonson
#25. A half-wild beast, Nesta had once called me. It was an effort to not take his hand, to not reach out to him and tell him that I understood.
Sarah J. Maas
#26. Poor man. You look as though you'd been attacked by a wild beast." A husky laugh escaped him. "Just a small vixen," he said, "who grew a bit fierce in her play." "You should bite her back," Pandora said against his chest. "That would teach her to be gentler with you.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.
William Powell
#29. From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato
#30. My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
Victoria Legrand
#31. A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
#32. Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
Chairil Anwar
#33. Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
Jean-Francois De La Harpe
#34. Thievery is for the civilized. It is what laws protect us from. I am a wild beast of no laws and no society. I want no laws. I want no more civilized things.
J.M. McDermott
#35. O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
Arthur Rimbaud
#36. Some lioness whelped you on a mountain rock
In Libya, or else you're Scylla's child
Whose womb's all barking dogs, for only a wild
Beast with the nature of a beast could mock
A desperate man making a last appeal
Down on his knees. Bitch heart too hard to feel!
Catullus
#37. I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt
#38. Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#39. There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift
#40. It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and you become a wild beast yourself. (""The Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah")
William Beckford
#41. Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.
Francis Bacon
#42. Wild need slipped into his mind as she moaned into his mouth and he fucking loved how greedy she was, but fuck, she was completely wrecking his ability to be easy with her. She was using her power and strength in a way that riled his beast.
Setta Jay
#43. 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.
Gautama Buddha
#44. In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#45. The expression just set me on edge. He had the look of an injured wild animal. I imagined a hungry lion limping in front of me with a bloody paw. No matter how much the beast stumbled or bled, one would have to always remember that the creature could tear the average human body in half.
Kenya Wright
#46. Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.
Dennis Rodman
#47. Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does not a woman redden all over when she feels her lover's eyes on her? How then should one doubt the mysterious power of one individual over another?
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#48. Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller
#49. In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
Socrates
