Famous quotes containing the word beating:
“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.
“The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land, you may almost hear the beating of his wings.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)