Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de¤ v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1, no.14.

The monster was indeed the best friend I could ever have.

-Karloff, Boris originally  William Henry Pratt
On his success as Frankenstein's monster. Quoted in Connoisseur,  Jan1991.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

-Lee, Laurie
  Cider With Rosie,'The Uncles'.

They died When time was open-eyed, Wooden and childish; only bones abide There, in the nowhere, where their boats were tossed Sky-high, where mariners had fabled news of IS, the whited monster.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket', pt.3.

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

-Muggeridge, Malcolm
  Christ and the Media,'Lecture1'.

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.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle 2, l.217^19.

There still remains, to mortifya wit, The many-headed monster of the pit.

-Pope, Alexander
  Imitations of Horace, bk.2, epistle1, l.304^5.

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid. So strong, so swift, the monster there's no gagging: Cut Scandal's head off, still the tongue is wagging.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  The School for Scandal, prologue.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

-Smollett,Tobias George
  Of London. Letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.

   A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadful fiend of gods and men ydrad.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.5, canto12, stanza 37.

All pictorial or plastic art is useless; art should be a monster which casts servile minds into terror.

-Tzara,Tristan pseudonym of Samy Rosenstock
Quoted in SaranneAlexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).