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Quotes About Hyena

[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
~ Bob Hope
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said. "You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...
~ Larry McMurtry
And just then it occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush; not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden, evil-smelling emptiness and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
~ Lewis Carroll
I never saw Claben bawled out for his performance, his extortions, yet he was a louse, the worst vile stingy hyena when it came to usury and dishonesty! A skunk when it came to lend and lease! Never a day's, a penny's grace...the worst tyrant about extensions...he'd fleece them to zero!...he'd finish off even the most decrepit woebegone wrecks...he'd suck them beyond the bone!...and he'd insult them besides into the bargain!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.
~ Samuel Johnson
Dante, or the hyena that writes poetry in tombs.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There were, however, a few exceptions. One was Norma Dodsworth, the poet, who had not unpleasantly drunk but had been sensible enough to pass out before any violent action proved necessary. He had been deposited, not very gently, on the lawn, where it was hoped that a hyena would give him a rude awakening. For all practical purposes he could, therefore, be regarded as absent.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Foolish was a reliable combination of English setter, Airedale, cocker spaniel, wistful doe, and rearing hyena.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Guilt is the hyena that'll lunge from behind and hamstring you.
~ Shannon Hale
On the African plains, the hyena (hi-EE-nuh) is the ruling predator after the lion. It makes a sound similar to a high-pitched human laugh.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The hyena has a reputation for being a thief and a coward.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
~ Ian Dury
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
~ Henry Rollins
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
~ Bob Hope
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If a am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.
~ Henry Miller
I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet.
~ Tom Hollander
Kiriwar: "I thought I smelled shit stinking up the hallway." Shiki: "I butchered a hyena...maybe that's why. That's what you do to a dog that betrays its master's wishes, right?
~ Suguro Chayamachi
This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking. "Like my do? I'll tell you who did it. Of course, it won't look as good on you as it does on me." She winked. "I'm sure. So how much does it cost to get a gas burner installed on your head?
~ Ilona Andrews
The most hated men in France in 1942: Philippe Henriot9 and Pierre Laval. The first as the Tiger, the second as the Hyena: around Henriot you can smell fresh blood, and around Laval the stench of rotting flesh.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that
~ Ambrose Bierce
Why on earth do adults have to laugh so loudly at everything? Hyena laughs, the women worse than the men—except for the times the men were worse than the women.
~ Christine Morton-Shaw