Creature Comparison Quotes

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

I wrote 'Airborn' after completing three books about bats. I loved my bats, but what a treat it was to write about humans again. They could eat food other than midges and mosquitoes, they wore clothing, they slept in beds - all this struck me as wonderfully novel.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.