Beastly Quotes - Page 3

• A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

  Edward Lear

  Music, Insane, Roaring

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

  Storm Jameson

  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Twists

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Lying, Dust, Atheism

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• Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

  Tite Kubo

  Heart, Moon, Night

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• Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

  Tasha Alexander

  Might, Fascinating, Dies

  Tasha Alexander (2009). “And Only to Deceive”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children to hurt each other in beastly ways. Murderers have usually killed the one person in the world that was bugging them and they're usually quite peaceful and agreeable.

  John Mortimer

  Hurt, Children, Hate

  "Rumpole creator Mortimer dies at 85" by Sam Marsden and Chris Moncrieff, www.independent.co.uk. January 16, 2009.

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• Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.

  Shoshin Nagamine

  Art, Lying, Training

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Fortune, Businessman

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