Top 378 Monstrous Quotes & Sayings

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

I like all the things that make you monstrous.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally, and within the society.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

When you traffic in monsters, that's the risk you run, that you'll find one too monstrous to stomach.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Ingratitude is monstrous.

The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.

Tools arm the man. One can well say that man is capable of bringing forth a world; he lacks only the necessary apparatus, the corresponding armature of his sensory tools. The beginning is there. Thus the principle of a warship lies in the idea of the shipbuilder, who is able to incorporate this thought by making himself into a gigantic machine, as it were, through a mass of men and appropriate tools and materials. Thus the idea of a moment often required monstrous organs, monstrous masses of materials, and man is therefore a potential, if not an actual creator.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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)

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of reading.

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.

Islamism is a monstrous totalitarian ideology that has declared war on our nation, on reason, on civilization.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

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