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Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating. -- Tasha Alexander
We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they? -- Sid Vicious
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger. -- Alan Bleasdale
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. -- Aldous Huxley
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. -- Winston Churchill
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave. -- Agatha Christie
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded. -- Philip Stubbs
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist -- M. F. K. Fisher
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
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. -- W. Somerset Maugham
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them. -- Tikhon of Zadonsk
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
It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint. -- Al-Ghazali
I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes. -- H. P. Lovecraft
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste. -- Hilaire Belloc
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
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out-- -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought. -- Octave Mirbeau
The mindset of legislating for the betterment of society guarantees the growth of the beast. ... Politicians see government as a solution but the people see government as part of the problem. Beastly bureaucracy is born out of good intentions married to poor solutions. Only when politicians realize what constituents already know will the true problem even be addressed much less solved. -- R. Lee Wrights
One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The few national team tests I took on ergs were dismal failures, which worked wonders to further my dislike of these beastly creatures. Boring. Tedious. Noisy. Ergs have greatly cheapened rowing. Graceless. Greasy. Grim. The erg is to rowing what having sex by yourself is to having sex. Stop it! -- Brad Alan Lewis
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. -- Gary Hamel
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist. -- M. F. K. Fisher
I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason. -- Caleb Carr
Eschew all those beastly adjectives... -- Roald Dahl
How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species -- D. H. Lawrence
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. -- Irving Stone
Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost. -- Truman Capote
My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about. -- Oscar Wilde
No. No way. That name is reserved for females with grace and elegance, not this girl. This girl is...beastly. -- Victoria Scott
Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone? I hate this game. -- Albert Ball
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. -- Theophrastus
My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on. -- D. H. Lawrence
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn't even want the beastly thing. -- Quentin Crisp

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