Associations to the word «Bete»

Wiktionary

BÊTE DE SCÈNE, noun. A feral player; an actor whose intense performance is likened to a wild animal.
BÊTE DE SCÈNE, noun. A performer with innate talent.
BÊTE NOIR, noun. Misspelling of bête noire.
BÊTE NOIRE, noun. An anathema; someone or something which is particularly disliked or avoided; an object of aversion, the bane of one’s existence.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca