Cruel Quotes - page 3

Most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical. (William Pitt the Younger)
What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. View quote
Italo Calvino
Not safe?” I asked, all innocence. "Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs. View quote
Ann Leckie
What a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. View quote
Robert E. Lee
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself. View quote
Gore Vidal
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. View quote
Henry James
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little. (John Ruskin)
The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. View quote
George R. R. Martin
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is) has these vices much more. The Church has been cruel; but the world has been much more cruel. The Church has plotted; but the world has plotted much more. The Church has been superstitious; but it has never been so superstitious as the world is when left to itself. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexa­tions, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. View quote
Anne Rice
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all. View quote
Antonin Artaud
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. View quote
Stephen Fry
Whose cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have an 's' in it. View quote
Steven Wright
Unwind my riddle. Cruel as hawks the hours fly; Wounded men seldom come home to die; The hard waves see an arm flung high; Scorn hits strong because of a lie; Yet there exists a mystic tie. Unwind my riddle. (Stephen Crane)
As I swim through the summer tide of vulgarity, I find that's what I'm looking for: Movies that at least feel affection for their characters. Raunchy is OK. Cruel is not. View quote
Roger Ebert
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. View quote
Anthony Burgess
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson