Beast quotes
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I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again
-- Alan Ladd -
Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
-- Alex Flinn -
During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
During a Chess competition a Chessmaster should be a combination of a beast of prey and a monk
-- Alexander Alekhine -
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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
-- Alexander Pope -
It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us.
-- Alexis Arguello -
The beast faith lives on its own dung.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
-- Ammianus Marcellinus -
I am a mistake of nature, a mad beast.
-- Andrei Chikatilo -
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
-- Annie Dillard -
There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
-- Aristotle -
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
-- Aristotle -
Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
-- Aristotle -
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
-- Aristotle -
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The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.
-- Aristotle -
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god...
-- Aristotle -
A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.
-- Arthur Golden -
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
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Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.
-- Barbara Delinsky -
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
-- Ben Jonson -
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
-- Bhartrhari -
I'm not fit company for man or beast.
-- Billy Strayhorn -
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Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.
-- Bob Kerrey -
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
-- Boris Pasternak -
I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Train like a beauty look like a beast
-- Cassey Ho -
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
-- Cate Blanchett -
Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
-- Chairil Anwar -
Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.
-- Charlyne Yi -
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There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.
-- Clive Barker -
Death frees the beast.
-- Clive Owen -
And he, he himself...the Grinch...carved the roast-beast!
-- Dr. Seuss -
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Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
-- Edmund Leach -
There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.
-- Edward Topsell -
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.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
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Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
-- Elizabeth I -
desire is a beast that must be fed!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
-- Ernest Gaines -
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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Every man has a wild beast within him.
-- Frederick The Great -
He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
-- Gabby Douglas -
He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a lot to be said for a man who sported such well-tailored jackets---even if he did change into a ferocious beast once a month.
-- Gail Carriger -
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.
-- George Washington -
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
-- Georgette Heyer -
We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.
-- Gerald Hausman -
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
-- Gerard Way -
The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.
-- Guru Arjan -
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
-- Henry George -
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
-- Heywood Broun -
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Smoke. Smoke. Smoke. Only a pipe distinguishes man from beast.
-- Honore Daumier -
swore. “Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this.†Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. “Courage, Your Majesty.†“I will kill him.†“The Beast Lord or Barabas?†“Both.
-- Ilona Andrews -
The Beast Lord way: often wrong but never in doubt.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Curran is the Beast Lord. Tremble.
-- Ilona Andrews -
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What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?
-- Ilona Andrews -
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
-- Isobelle Carmody -
A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
-- Jack Hanna -
Our fans are like rabid beasts that rub themselves with the nectar that is Psych.
-- James Roday -
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
-- Jean-Francois de La Harpe -
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.
-- Jeff Baena -
Girl you are a beauty. Well, I am a beast. They must have been trippin to let me off the leash.
-- Jeremih -
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So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
-- John Locke -
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
-- John Oliver -
Man differs more from man than man from beast
-- John Wilmot -
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
-- Johnny Cash -
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
-- Joseph Stalin -
Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.
-- Juvenal -
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I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you.
-- K.Michelle -
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent
-- Klaus Kinski -
Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.
-- Kristen Ashley -
Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
-- Leonard Maltin -
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There is no beast more cruel than man.
-- Leonid Andreyev -
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
-- Liberty Hyde Bailey -
Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.
-- Lil Wayne -
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
-- Louis MacNeice -
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I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…
-- Louisa May Alcott -
The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.
-- Louise Bogan -
We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
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I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?
-- Margaret Mahy -
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
-- Max Muller -
I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.
-- Michael Fassbender -
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
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Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!
-- Nicki Minaj -
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.
-- Nikki Grimes -
Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
-- Octavian Paler -
Writing is the beast unto itself.
-- Omar Epps -
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Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
-- Ouida -
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
-- Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie -
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
-- Plato -
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
-- Plotinus -
