Best Cruel Qoutes
1107 Cruel quotes by 806 unique authors
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the…
— Nick Clooney
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...I never heard him abuse an enemy. Some of the cruel things said about President Lincoln, particularly in the North, used to pierce him to…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
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Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'…
— Andrew Marvell
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a…
— Samuel Johnson
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But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
— Robert E. Lee
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There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.
— Ellen Langer
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Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
— H. L. Mencken
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God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot…
— Solomon
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We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority…
— Jared Diamond
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He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel.
— Abraham Lincoln
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He who is not actively kind is cruel!
— John Ruskin
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.
— Billy Graham
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all…
— Martin McDonagh
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John was an extraordinary man. Our relationship has shaped much of my life. I have always loved him and never stopped loving him. That’s why…
— Cynthia Lennon
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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who…
— Ernst Thalmann
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The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with…
— Margaret Way
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Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
— Nuala O'Faolain
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People…
— William Blum
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