Brute quotes

I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

- Robert Browning
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

Et tu, Brute? You too, Brutus?

- Irving Caesar
Attributed last words, when struck by his murderers, Cassius and Brutus. The tradition is based on Suetonius Lives of the Twelve Caesars,'Divus Iulius', section 82:'Some say that when he saw Marcus Brutus about to deliver the second blow, he reproached him in Greek with:'You too, my son?' (the Greek is kai su, teknon).

I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

-William Cowper
  Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of  Juan Fernandez'.

Because a man has a black face and a different religion fromours, there isno reasonwhy heshould betreatedas a brute.

-Edward VII
  Letter from India to Lord Granville, 30 Nov.

How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!

- Quintus Ennius Ennius
Quoted in Cicero De Divinatione, bk.50 (translated by H Rackham,1942).

We for a certaintyare not the first Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Last Poems, no.9.

For it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, and 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Tommy'.

God of our Fathers, what is man! That thou towards him with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temperst thy providence through his short course, Not evenly, as thou rul'st The angelic orders and inferior creatures mute, Irrational and brute.

-John Milton
Samson  Agonistes, l.667^73.

Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

- Sylvia Plath
  'Daddy', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  'The Lord of the Dynamos'.