(134 quotes found)
“We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with”
C.S. Lewis
“And the turtles, of course... All the turtles are free- As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
Dr. Seuss
“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
Oscar Wilde
“Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it”
William Shakespeare
“For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
“But in my arms till break of dayLet the living creature lie,Mortal, guilty, but to meThe entirely beautiful.”
W. H. Auden
“I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
Marquis De Sade
“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”
William S. Burroughs
“There being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species should be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection”
John Locke