Quotes Temple Beasts Quotes

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

Aeschylus

Poet

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

Poet

They're magnificent animals. It's just an exceptional piece of nature, these beasts.

Bill Ray

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Brigitte Bardot

Actress

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C. S. Lewis

Author

Have you ever seen a scorpion up close? ... They're really sinister-looking beasts. They were everywhere. When the kids came to visit, we had to tell them not to leave their clothes on the floor. We took over some poison from Smith Hardware, and now we rarely see them.

Carl Gable

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Cate Blanchett

Actress

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Charles Kingsley

Clergyman

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Chief Seattle

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Confucius

Philosopher

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

Daniel Boone

Explorer

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

Doris Day

Actress

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.

Dr. Willard Gaylin

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

Scientist

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Elizabeth I

Royalty

My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.

Harry Ellis Dickson

The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the girls simply had to learn to live with that routine and practise love in the afternoon.

Harry G. Johnson

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Heywood Broun

Journalist

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

Heywood C. Broun

Writer

Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

Ian Rankin

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Jeffery Deaver

Writer

[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

Pastor

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

Writer

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Jonathan Swift

Writer