Cruelty Quote by Lucy Worsley

“There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth,…

— Stephen King

“Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King’s Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility…

— George R.R. Martin

“The horror of her incarceration in the Tower was a defining event Elizabeth could never forget. It made a passionate heart more circumspect, a…

— Jane Dunn

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

— Horace

“Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn’t like you.”

— Lauren Tarshis

“From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of…

— Dean Koontz

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

— Horace

“Courts. To be seen as you would see the Tower of London or menagerie of Versailles with their lions, tigers, hyænas, and other beasts…

— Albert Jay Nock

“YOUNG MORTIMER: Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace, Corrupter of thy king, cause of these broils, Base flatterer, yield! and were it not…

— Christopher Marlowe

“sight. In his essay On The Sublime, Edmund Burke observes, "Represent the most sublime and affecting tragedy we have...and when you have collected your…

— Daniel Myerson

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings; How some have been deposed; some…

— William Shakespeare