In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.