Monstrosity Quotes

• As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Two, Letters, Six

  "The Author", Summer 1944.

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• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ambitious, Would Be, Gross

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• Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

  Louise Erdrich

  Sometimes, Superhuman, Persons

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, Religious, Religion

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• The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

  William Shakespeare

  Lust, Desire, Limits

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.133, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Life, Artist, Inspire

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• Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

  Gustave Flaubert

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• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Richard Neal

  People, Together, Today

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• If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

  Nigel Farage

  People, Greek, Trying

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• The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

  C. S. Lewis

  Indulge In, Trying, Unions

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

  Lindsey Graham

  Cutting, Government, Growing

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

  Johann Most

  Country, World, Assuming

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• What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Mind, Faces

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, section 89, 1973.

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• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Wall, Black

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

  Jean Genet

  Ornaments, Certain, Projection

  Jean Genet (1994). “Miracle of the Rose”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, World, Figures

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, People, Monsters

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• ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

  Noam Chomsky

  Iraq, Isis, Hitting

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• Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

  Murray Rothbard

  Education, Teacher, Religious

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• Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

  Honore de Balzac

  Special, Riches, Gains

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• One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then after a while they either accept them or they go on thinking that they are monstrosities. Reactions vary. This depends to some extent on the quality of the building.

  Joseph Rykwert

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Do we want to be citizens or customers?". Interview with Matthew Knight, edition.cnn.com. June 12, 2008.

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• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

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• Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Suicide, Dog, Baby

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Artist, Thinking, Suffering

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, Belknap Press

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