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)

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

“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow’st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here’s three on’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)