Beast Quotes

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury
- People
- Night
- Littles
A sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.

Anne Bosworth Greene
- Expression
- Beast
- Rage

Many European countries are fascinated with minorities from the United States. They still see this country as a world power and they covet that power...I was approached by a professor once at the Sorbonne in Paris and asked about racism in this country, and when I reflected on racism on the streets of Paris - you know, I'd be considered an Arab there -well, she didn't want to address that...It just goes to show it was easier for Europeans to study racism in the United States than it is from within the belly of the beast.

Ana Castillo
- World
- Country
- She
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

Elton Welsby
- Body
- Alive
- Occasions
O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

William Shakespeare
- Thinking
- Devil
- Hell
As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

William Butler Yeats
- Men
- Kind
- Copies
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

Willard Gaylin
- Humanity
- Humans
- Thug
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

Paul Gauguin
- Brain
- Waiting
- Critics