--- title: "17 Cruel Man Quotes by 16 authors" description: "Browse 17 Cruel Man quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Cruel Man sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/duncan-jones-12555_cruel_i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself-2298712_2298712.jpg" --- > [I'm a cruel man to myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duncan-jones/i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself/) [Duncan Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/duncan-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/duncan-jones-12555_cruel_i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself-2298712_2298712.jpg) > [“There is no redemption in a cruel man's love.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nenia-campbell/there-is-no-redemption-in-a-cruel-man-s-love/) [Nenia Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nenia-campbell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/664/nenia-campbell-1294_cruelty_there-is-no-redemption-in-a-cruel-man-s_2013774.jpg) > [There is no beast more cruel than man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonid-andreyev/there-is-no-beast-more-cruel-than-man/) [Leonid Andreyev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonid-andreyev/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/497/leonid-andreyev-17488_animals_there-is-no-beast-more-cruel-than-man-17_1752197.jpg) > [Men are cruel, but Man is kind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rabindranath-tagore/men-are-cruel-but-man-is-kind/) [Rabindranath Tagore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rabindranath-tagore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5e/rabindranath-tagore-383_cruel_men-are-cruel-but-man-is-kind-1664783_1664783.png) > [Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/belief-in-a-cruel-god-makes-a-cruel-man/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/thomas-paine-267_belief_belief-in-a-cruel-god-makes-a-cruel-man_2980469.png) > [Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-savage-landor/cruelty-is-the-highest-pleasure-to-the-cruel-man-it-is-his-love/) [Walter Savage Landor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-savage-landor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/walter-savage-landor-1404_cruel_cruelty-is-the-highest-pleasure-to-the-c_913262.png) > [A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself. - Proverbs 11:17](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bible/a-man-who-is-kind-benefits-himself-but-a-cruel-man-hurts-himself/) [Bible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bible/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/bible-141_being-a-good-person_a-man-who-is-kind-benefits-himself-but-a_1808083.jpg) > [“(’No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.’)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-glover/no-animal-could-ever-be-so-cruel-as-a-man-so-artfully-so-artistically/) [Jonathan Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-glover/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e97/jonathan-glover-76548_animals_no-animal-could-ever-be-so-cruel-as-a-ma_832668.jpg) > [How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lori-lansens/how-cruel-it-must-be-for-a-man-to-live-past-his-soul/) [Lori Lansens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lori-lansens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afb/lori-lansens-15092_cruel_how-cruel-it-must-be-for-a-man-to-live-p_1836380.png) > [“... a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/a-beast-can-never-be-so-cruel-as-a-man-so-artistically-cruel/) [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/154/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_animals_a-beast-can-never-be-so-cruel-as-a-man-s_3039696.jpg) > [“Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-bronte/mr-heathcliff-you-re-a-cruel-man-but-you-re-not-a-fiend-and-you-won-t/) [Emily Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-bronte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f2/emily-bronte-574_cruel_mr-heathcliff-you-re-a-cruel-man-but-you_1038262.png) > [It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-mayhew/it-would-be-stupid-tameness-and-unaccountable-folly-for-whole-nations/) [Jonathan Mayhew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-mayhew/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/jonathan-mayhew-25167_ambitious_it-would-be-stupid-tameness-and-unaccoun_1460900.png) > [I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/delmore-schwartz/i-admired-my-father-very-much-at-the-age-of-sixteen-but-now-i-see/) [Delmore Schwartz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/delmore-schwartz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/delmore-schwartz-17231_age_i-admired-my-father-very-much-at-the-age_1507394.jpg) > [It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-is-from-the-bible-that-man-has-learned-cruelty-rapine-and-murder/) [Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f6/thomas-paine-267_belief_it-is-from-the-bible-that-man-has-learne_1780240.png) > [“…oh, you faithless, unfortunate man!...Because of you I spent the whole night yesterday shivering and naked. I lost my nature and replaced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bulgakov/oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because-of-you-i-spent-the-whole/) [Mikhail Bulgakov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mikhail-bulgakov/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/mikhail-bulgakov-1389_quote_oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because_753660.jpg) > [“Lady Thornton!” the prosecutor rapped out, and he began firing questions at her so rapidly that she could scarcely keep track of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-mcnaught/lady-thornton-the-prosecutor-rapped-out-and-he-began-firing-questions/) [Judith McNaught](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-mcnaught/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/judith-mcnaught-687_last-time_lady-thornton-the-prosecutor-rapped-out_309699.png) > [“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to sudden explosions. If a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-the-great/the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-temperament-and-is-a-man-of-moods/) [Frederick the Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-the-great/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/frederick-the-great-8525_crime_the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-tempera_374226.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel-man/#itemlist", "name": "Cruel Man Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a cruel man to myself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Duncan Jones" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/duncan-jones/i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/duncan-jones-12555_cruel_i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself-2298712_2298712.jpg", "contentUrl": 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"text": "I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. 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I lost my nature and replaced it with a new one, I spent several months sitting in a dark closet thinking about one thing, about the storm over Yershalaim, I cried my eyes out, and now, when happiness has befallen us, you drive me away! Well, then I’ll go, I’ll go, but you should know that you are a cruel man! They’ve devastated your soul!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mikhail Bulgakov" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mikhail-bulgakov/oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because-of-you-i-spent-the-whole/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/mikhail-bulgakov-1389_quote_oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because_753660.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/mikhail-bulgakov-1389_quote_oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because_753660.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f6/mikhail-bulgakov-1389_quote_oh-you-faithless-unfortunate-man-because_753660.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“…oh, you faithless, unfortunate man!...Because of you I spent the whole night yesterday shivering and naked…” — Mikhail Bulgakov", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Lady Thornton!” the prosecutor rapped out, and he began firing questions at her so rapidly that she could scarcely keep track of them. “Tell us the truth, Lady Thornton. Did that man”-his finger pointed accusingly to where Ian was sitting, out of Elizabeth’s vision-“fid you and bribe you to come back here and tell us this absurd tale? Or did he find you and threaten your life if you didn’t come here today? Isn’t it true that you have no idea where your brother is? Isn’t it true that by your own admission a few moments ago you fled in terror for your life from this cruel man? Isn’t it true that you are afraid of further cruelty from him-“ “ No! ” Elizabeth cried. Her gaze raced over the male faces around and above her, and she could see not one that looked anything but either dubious or contemptuous of the truths she had told. “No further questions!” “ Wait! ” In that infinitesimal moment of time Elizabeth realized that if she couldn’t convince them she was telling the truth, she might be able to convince them she was too stupid to make up such a lie. “Yes, my lord,” her voice rang out. “I cannot deny it-about his cruelty, I mean.” Sutherland swung around, his eyes lighting up, and renewed excitement throbbed in the great chamber. “You admit this is a cruel man?” “Yes, I do,” Elizabeth emphatically declared. “My dear, poor woman, could you tell us-all of us-some examples of his cruelty?” “Yes, and when I do, I know you will all understand how truly cruel my husband can be and why I ran off with Robert-my brother, that is.” Madly, she tried to think of half-truths that would not constitute perjury, and she remembered Ian’s words the night he came looking for her at Havenhurst. “Yes, go on.” Everyone in the galleries leaned forward in unison, and Elizabeth had the feeling the whole building was tipping toward her. “When was the last time your husband was cruel?” “Well, just before I left he threatened to cut off my allowance-I had overspent it, and I hated to admit it.” “You were afraid he would beat you for it?” “No, I was afraid he wouldn’t give me more until next quarter!” Someone in the gallery laughed, then the sound was instantly choked. Sutherland started to frown darkly, but Elizabeth plunged ahead. “My husband and I were discussing that very thing-my allowance, I mean-two nights before I ran away with Bobby.” “And did he become abusive during that discussion? Is that the night your maid testified that you were weeping?” “Yes, I believe it was!” “Why were you weeping, Lady Thornton?” The galleries tipped further toward her. “I was in a terrible taking,” Elizabeth said, stating a fact. “I wanted to go away with Bobby. In order to do it, I had to sell my lovely emeralds, which Lord Thornton gave me.” Seized with inspiration, she leaned confiding inches toward the Lord Chancellor upon the woolsack. “I knew he would buy me more, you know.” Startled laughter rang out from the galleries, and it was the encouragement Elizabeth desperately needed. Lord Sutherland, however, wasn’t laughing. He sensed that she was trying to dupe him, but with all the arrogance typical of most of his sex, he could not believe she was smart enough to actually attempt, let alone accomplish it. “I’m supposed to believe you sold your emeralds out of some freakish start-out of a frivolous desire to go off with a man you claim was your brother?” “Goodness, I don’t know what you are supposed to believe. I only know I did it.” “Madam!” he snapped. “You were on the verge of tears , according to the jeweler to whom you sold them. 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If a man like this does not fight this unhappy provision of his soul during his youth, under no circumstances could he a void becoming furious - and foolish. There are those who would leave it up to God, but to ensure justice on the earth, and not fob it off to the Divinity, it is mandatory that people know both virtue and its benefits, since the virtues lead to unity among them, not the war of all against all. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to conserve them, and show that crime can only return misfortunes and destruction, including of the criminal himself. Who is the last victim of his crimes.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Frederick the Great" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-the-great/the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-temperament-and-is-a-man-of-moods/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/frederick-the-great-8525_crime_the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-tempera_374226.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/frederick-the-great-8525_crime_the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-tempera_374226.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/frederick-the-great-8525_crime_the-cruel-man-is-of-misanthropic-tempera_374226.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The cruel man is of misanthropic temperament, and is a man of moods, oscillating from quiet brooding to…” — Frederick the Great", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel-man/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel-man/", "name": "Cruel Man Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cruel-man/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/duncan-jones-12555_cruel_i-m-a-cruel-man-to-myself-2298712_2298712.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 17 Cruel Man quotes by 16 authors. 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