“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but not exultation”
“Money makes the man a beast.”
“I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughterand the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.”
“I am the beast at the end of the rope.”
“I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart -- callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence. -- From the short story What Rough Beast”