Monstrous

Famous quotes containing the word monstrous:

“With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)