Cruel Quotes - page 4

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind. (Colleen McCullough)

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

Willa Cather

Sweet April-time - O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.

Dinah Craik

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Margaret Cavendish

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

Frances Burney

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

Ann Coulter

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

Matthew Arnold

All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. (Mikhail Bakunin)

It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Oscar Wilde

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

Christopher Isherwood

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that the relationship between a man and a woman can be something like a war itself, very cruel and violent.

António Lobo Antunes

I mean, is ‘fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat' worse than ‘vindictive', ‘jealous', ‘shallow', ‘vain', ‘boring' or ‘cruel'? Not me.

J. K. Rowling

There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.

Vladimir Nabokov

I've always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into ‘that guy.' That guy!

Leonardo DiCaprio

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

George Sand

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? ...Sometimes he makes us live.

Stephen King

A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown. (William Butler Yeats)

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

Penn Jillette

I see the Fourfold Man the Humanity in deadly sleep, And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. I see the Past, Present, and Future existing all at once Before me.

William Blake

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might beneither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins

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