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Quotes About Monstrous

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
There was a monstrous deal of stupid quizzing and common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit.
~ Jane Austen
To Morgan, the disfigurement of his monstrous nose was the touch of God upon him, the assurance of mortality. It was the steadiest assurance he had.
~ E.L. Doctorow
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords. (p. 28)
~ Eckhart Tolle
Henry James] privately characterized Roosevelt as a dangerous and ominous jingo, and the mere monstrous embodiment of unprecedented and resounding Noise.
~ Edmund Morris
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~ Aldous Huxley
Under Obama's intentional neglect, the most barbaric force in modern history - the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) - has taken form as a monstrous hoard and, like a hurricane, gathered power.
~ Wayne LaPierre
I am surrounded by wonderful women, thought Joe. Whoever said that stuff about a monstrous regiment got it wrong. Must have meant wondrous!
~ Reginald Hill
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,Than the sea-monster.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.
~ William Shakespeare
Unformed, monstrous, and perhaps unidentifiable, deconstruction has moved virally through fields beyond philosophy and theory. Derrida advanced its progress in architecture, art, politics and law. And especially, in literature…
~ Jeff Collins
the shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What was a person but someone who turned monstrous, anyway? What was a person, in Moss's experience, but a kind of demon.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges; Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes, And fresh from the kisses of death, Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean, Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallid And poisonous queen.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
La belleza es un monstruo, una deidad sangrienta a la que hay que aplacar con constantes sacrificios...
~ Almudena Grandes
The Magistrate and Empress stand arm in arm like the monster-movie American Gothic.
~ Richard Kadrey
gigantic spiders
~ L. Frank Baum
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .
~ Thomas Jefferson
Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
~ Oscar Wilde
She held her sword like she was ready to use it on anyone who got close. Darquesse could see her own reflection in the blade. A pretty girl with a scar on her cheek, fifteen years old and dark-haired. Her pale face splattered with other people's blood. Her eyes, dark-ringed. Is this what they all saw, she wondered, or did the see something else? Something magnificent and terrible? Something monstrous?
~ Derek Landy