Famous quotes containing the words beast and/or mode:
“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)