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Monsters Quotes - Page 25

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.184, Hachette UK

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.41

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

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1786, Delphi Classics

be careful of monsters with teeth

Harlan Ellison (2014). “The Harlan Ellison Hornbook”, p.56, Open Road Media

Most of my monsters fail altogether to satisfy my sense of the cosmic - the abnormally chromatic entity in The Colour Out of Space being the only one of the lot which I take any pride in.

Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in "Selected Letters II, 1925-1929" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 316), 1968.

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

"Q&A: Hobbit Director Guillermo del Toro on the Future of Film". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 22, 2009.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.135