“Who killed John Keats?
"I," says the Quarterly,
So savage and Tartarly;
"'Twas one of my feats."”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
John Keats (c. 1821).
“Twas Beauty that killed the beast!”
Carl Denham, King Kong (1933)
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British crime writer, journalist and playwright 1875–1932Related quotes
“If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.”
Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow
Context: p>I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.</p
Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian
Source: Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
“Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Il ne faut jamais
Vendre la peau de l'ours qu'on ne l'ait mis par terre.
Book V (1668), fable 20.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 9: A View to a Death
“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”
Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord
Act 11, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
“Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne book Poems and Ballads
"Anactoria", line 115.
Poems and Ballads (1866-89)
“A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death…”
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) French Symbolist poet
Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death...
By what attraction
Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets
That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?