Animal

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved, ready to bolt down every killed man that is tossed to them . . .

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Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are.

- K. Jerome Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We think cag'd birds sing, when indeed they cry.

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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere . . .

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Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

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Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes