Cruelty Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

33 Cruelty Quotes
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“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes
“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears”
Publilius Syrus Quotes
“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity”
George Eliot Quotes
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together”
Honore de Balzac Quotes
“People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can't someone be different.why can't someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge pe”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes
“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel”
Thomas Fowell Buxton Quotes
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
“In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us”
Robinson Jeffers Quotes
“Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
“It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
“Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.”
William Cowper Quotes
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 326)
“It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.”
Thomas Hood Quotes
Source: Song of the Shirt
“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”
Alexander Hume Quotes
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. LXII)
“An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!"”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: The Occultation of Orion (st. 6)
“I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]”
Louis XIII Quotes
Source: see "Historie de Louis XIII", IV, p. 416
“He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]”
Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Quotes
Source: Pharsalia (I, 150)
“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
Source: History of England (vol. I, ch. II)
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
“See what a rent the envious Casca made.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Cromwell at V, iii)
“Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at I, v)
“And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv)
“Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.”
Edward Young Quotes
Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 158)
“One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.”
Thomas Fowell Buxton Quotes