Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others’ children.”
—Sam Levenson (20th century)

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Through light-obliterating garden foliage what magic drum?
Down limb and breast or down that glimmering belly move his mouth and sinewy tongue.
What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)