Cruelty Quote by Edward Irving

“In Scotland, there is a rapid loss of all grandeur of mien and manners; a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear; the poverty of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic…

— Donna Tartt

“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do…

— Charlotte Bronte

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear,…

— Charles Churchill

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

— Saint Augustine

“Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“…We don't get to choose our own hearts. We can't make ourselves want what's good for us or what's good for other people. We…

— Tartt Donna

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth…

— William Dunbar

“Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The shovel of trouble digs the reservoir of encouragement deeper and makes more room for…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

— John Updike

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

— Maya Angelou

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

— H. Rider Haggard