O thou monster ignorance! [ William Shakespeare ]
Every monster hath its multitudes. [ Proverb ]
The many-headed monster, (i.e. the mob).
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. [ Alexander Pope ]
Gold is but a chimaera, or fabulous monster. [ S. Meyerbeer ]
Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]
'Tis a monster begot upon itself, born on itself. [ William Shakespeare ]
If all the world were ugly, deformity would be no monster. [ Proverb ]
A monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. [ Juv ]
A nobleman who leads a degraded life is a monster in nature. [ Molière ]
A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. [ Virgil, of Polyphemus ]
Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence to be got rid of. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Jealousy - it is a green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on. [ William Shakespeare ]
The blind monster with uncounted heads, the still discordant, wavering multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like some tall tree, the monster of the wood, o'ershading all that under him would grow. [ Dryden ]
Marriage should combat without respite or mercy that monster which devours everything, habit. [ Balzac ]
Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. [ Mackenzie ]
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus, - strong to execute, but blind to perceive. [ Colton ]
We look at death through the cheapglazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. [ Lowell ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]