Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Underwater eyes, an eel’s
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

““Our snowstorms as a rule
Aren’t looked on as man-killers, and although
I’d rather be the beast that sleeps the sleep
Under it all, his door sealed up and lost,
Than the man fighting it to keep above it,
Yet think of the small birds at roost and not
In nests....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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