(153 quotes found)
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. (Revelations 5:8)”
Bible
“There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: / A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; / A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.”
“The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.”
Voltaire
“No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.”
William S. Gilbert
“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
“We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?”
Sid Vicious
“My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at them, even if my glance is a complimentary one.”
Harry Ellis Dickson
“The mosquito knows full well that he is small, he is a beast of prey.”
David Herbert Lawrence
“And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.”
“Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.”
