Top 100 Quotes About Beasts
#1. Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.
Catherine Fisher
#3. There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
Jonathan Swift
#4. Passion, rage - no matter how much we evolve, man can't escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. We can only hope to control the beast inside us.
A.G. Riddle
#5. No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. By now, sympathy for the plight of the polar bears had largely disappeared from public discourse. Instead of beautiful mammals deserving of out preservation efforts, they came to be known as a marauding horde of beasts surfing a climatic anomaly that was laying waste to Canada.
Ryan Boudinot
#7. All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.
Ken Follett
#8. Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.
William Goldman
#9. Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
John Muir
#10. Humanity badly needs things that are big and fearsome and homicidally wild. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we need to preserve those few remaining beasts, places, and forces of nature capable of murdering us with sublime indifference.
David Quammen
#11. Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.
Cleanthes
#12. I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.
Marie Brennan
#13. The beasts would not think it hard if I told them to walk on their heads. It would become their delight to walk on their heads. I am His beast, and all His biddings are joys.
C.S. Lewis
#14. They can try to kill me all they want, but I'm the girl who stands on tha backs of the beasts of the NeoPacific. The Minnow blazes from within, promising life and warmth and vilainy, but out here I'm mighty.
Emily Skrutskie
#15. Dancer, Darrow is like a stallion, one of the old stallions of Earth. Beautiful beasts that will run as hard as you push them. They will run. And run. And run. Until they don't. Until their hearts explode.
Pierce Brown
#16. Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#17. She faced that possibility as she might the toy street from a high balcony, roller-coaster ride, feeding-time among the beasts in a zoo - any death-wish that can be consummated by some minimum gesture.
Thomas Pynchon
#18. Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. [There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.
Winston Churchill
#20. Because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.
Che Guevara
#21. The first requirement of civilisation is that men should be willing to repress their basest instincts and appetites: failure to do which makes them, on account of their intelligence, far worse than mere beasts.
Theodore Dalrymple
#22. Fearsome Beasts and Strange Creatures Wonders in Paper and Mist
Erin Morgenstern
#23. Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.
Seth Shostak
#24. We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas Clarkson
#25. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
Voltaire
#26. As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of
fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
Baruch Spinoza
#27. I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.
Georges Bernanos
#29. When we give up on what draws us near to God, we become like beasts.
L. Michael Morales
#30. The deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family ... The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
Chief Seattle
#31. Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#32. What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
Pietro Aretino
#33. Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
Isaac Watts
#34. You are judging demons and beasts unfairly. The only animal capable of such cruelty walks on two legs and arrogantly thinks that he was created in image of God.
Juraj Cervenak
#35. It is difficult for gods to walk the earth without taking the forms of beasts.
Walker Percy
#36. It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed - to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
Joyce Carol Oates
#37. EPIC NAPPING! A NAP THAT WILL BE IMMORTALIZED FOR ALL TIME! A NAP FIT FOR THE KINGS OF ALL BEASTS!
Dixie Lyle
#38. This is a time for beasts, Jaime reflected, for lions and wolves and angry dogs, for ravens and carrion crows.
George R R Martin
#39. When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging
wain
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.
Bertolt Brecht
#40. Humans don't just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don't just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren't like any of the other beasts in the forest; they want to own it all.
Mark Van Steenwyk
#41. poison" or not'; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker
Lewis Carroll
#42. As the autumn deepens, the fathomless lakes of their eyes assume an ever more sorrowful hue. The leaves turn color, the grasses wither; the beasts sense the advance of a long, hungry season. And bowing to their vision, I too know a sadness.
Haruki Murakami
#43. The rising of birds in their flight is the sign of an ambuscade. Startled beasts indicate that a sudden attack is coming.
Sun Tzu
#44. War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts!
Kenneth Roberts
#45. Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?
Anne Rice
#46. But his sister, Artemis of the wild, the lady of wild beasts,
scolded him bitterly and spoke a word of revilement:
'You run from him, striker from afar ... Fool, then why do you wear that bow, which is wind and nothing.
Homer
#47. Survival strategy. If you're not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee's like bait for the beasts.
Rachel Vincent
#48. My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.
James Boswell
#49. We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.
Cristiane Serruya
#50. All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes
#51. A constellation of Utopians is a group which only seems a group to us because we seek familiar institutions in their government, as we use the shapes of beasts and heroes to make false sense of the sea of stars.
Ada Palmer
#52. Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each other.
Malcolm De Chazal
#53. All the beasts from sloth to pigmy shrew, arrayed silently in ordered cavalcade as if waiting admission to the Ark.
M T Anderson
#54. It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.
Mary Chase
#55. Homosexuals are brute beasts ... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.
Jerry Falwell
#56. Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
John Stuart Blackie
#57. The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.
Ursula Hegi
#58. I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
Chief Seattle
#60. Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.
Dean Koontz
#61. I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
David Gemmell
#62. I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
H.G.Wells
#64. Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.
John Gay
#65. At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
Alfred Noyes
#66. I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.
There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed.
Toba Beta
#67. I'm scared of the geese. When I was five, my mom took me down there to feed those horrible beasts and one of them nearly took my hand off.
Leah Rae Miller
#68. We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.
If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.
Toba Beta
#69. Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.
Plutarch
#70. This world is full of dangerous beasts - but none quite as ugly and uncontrollable as a lawyer who has finally flipped off the tracks of Reason. He will run completely amok - like a Priest into sex, or a narc-squad cop who suddenly decides to start sampling his contraband. Yes
Hunter S. Thompson
#71. And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
Thomas Hobbes
#72. Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
Alexander Pope
#73. How do you tell one You've spoken with God? / Would you believe someone / Who said that they saw / Plans for a boat / To hold all the beasts / And you and your kids From a flood to retreat?
Brian M. Boyce
#74. The champion of justice [ ... ] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.
Plato
#75. But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#76. Alkaline water tastes dreadful and was the scourge of covered wagon parties crossing Wyoming for neither men nor beasts could drink it for fear of blistering their tonsils and suffering agonizing stomach cramps.
Annie Proulx
#77. The creature took off with its companions - its pack. "So this is what the Reod did," Hrathen mused to himself. "It made beasts out of gods.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
#79. Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.
Robert Southey
#80. From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Plato
#81. Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic.
H.P. Lovecraft
#82. Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.
Erica Jong
#83. Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
Baron De Montesquieu
#84. Soon, however, it wasn't a matter of ioco or practice. In that place where they threw out beasts and garbage a lot of human blood was shed. It seems that the game of throwing the prete was invented there, the stone
Elena Ferrante
#85. Human beings are not animals, and I do not want to see sex and sexual differences treated as casually and amorally as dogs and other beasts treat them. I believe this could happen under the ERA.
Ronald Reagan
#86. Beasts of England had been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it.
George Orwell
#87. Help him, Adam
help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!
John Steinbeck
#88. The stars never lie, but Men and Beasts do.
C.S. Lewis
#89. [Rahmat Shah Sayel] described what was happening in Afghanistan as a 'war between two elephants' -the US and the Soviet Union- not our war, and said that we Pashtuns were 'like the grass crushed by the hooves of two fierce beasts
Malala Yousafzai
#90. The screaming of the beasts becomes louder. One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere, between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably.
Erich Maria Remarque
#91. The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,
Rudyard Kipling
#92. I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes
of snakes that run in frightful coils watching for their prey. I believe
it was born with the yelping, howling, growling and snarling of wild beasts ...
I despise it, I defy it, and I hate it.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#93. Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Miguel De Cervantes
#94. Stage 13 was, then, a toy shop, a magic chest, a sorcerer's trunk, a trick manufactory, and an aerial hangar of dreams at the center of which Roy stood each day, waving his long piano fingers at mythic beasts to stir them, whispering, in the ten-billion-year slumbers.
Ray Bradbury
#95. Some sins, such as anger and lust, are like wild beasts. They have to be fought through habits of restraint.
David Brooks
#96. Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ben Jonson
#97. There is a phrase "neither flesh nor fowl nor good red herring." This thing was all of them, plus some other bits of beasts unknown to science or nightmare or even kebab. There was certainly some red, and a lot of flapping, and Nutt was sure he caught a glimpse of an enormous sandal ...
Terry Pratchett
#98. God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac Newton
#99. The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
Margaret Cavendish
#100. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.
J.R.R. Tolkien
