monster quotes

  •    Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

    - Honore   de Balzac
      Physiologie du mariage.

  • pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

    - e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
    1x1, no.14.

  • The monster was indeed the best friend I could ever have.

    - Boris originally  William Henry Pratt Karloff
    On his success as Frankenstein's monster. Quoted in Connoisseur,  Jan1991.

  • Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

    - Laurie Lee
      Cider With Rosie,'The Uncles'.

  • They died When time was open-eyed, Wooden and childish; only bones abide There, in the nowhere, where their boats were tossed Sky-high, where mariners had fabled news of IS, the whited monster.

    - RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
      'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', pt.3.

  • Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

    - Malcolm Muggeridge
      Christ and the Media,'Lecture1'.

  • Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.217^19.

  • There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed monster of the pit.

    - Alexander Pope
      Imitations of Horace, bk.2, epistle1, l.304^5.

  • Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut Scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging.

    - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
      The School for Scandal, prologue.

  • The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

    -Tobias George Smollett
      Of London. Letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.

  •    A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen, bk.5, canto12, stanza 37.

  • All pictorial or plastic art is useless; art should be a monster which casts servile minds into terror.

    -Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock Tzara
    Quoted in SaranneAlexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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