Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“But the dark changed to red, and torches shone,
And deafening music shook the leaves; a troop
Shouldered a litter with a wounded man,
Or smote upon the string and to the sound
Sang of the beast that gave the fatal wound.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)