Quotes with monsters

  • The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
  • Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Victor Hugo Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Anthony Hopkins I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    French painter (1841 - 1919)
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  • John Keats I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • A. N. Wilson If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Horace Mann Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Stephen King Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
    Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
    Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
    Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
    Crimean Sonnets
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blake Bailey The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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  • Margaret Drabble The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Anderson Cooper The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • André Gide There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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