Cruel Quotes
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
Emily Bronte -
The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of tomorrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
Thomas Hardy
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No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.
Margaret Mitchell -
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
Victor Hugo -
Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
Kate Morton -
Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.
Adrian Hodges -
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down.
Kate Morton
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She thinks that life is crueler and more beautiful than she had ever imagined.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I'll show you just how cruel a sport basketball is.
Atsushi -
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Moliere -
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Kate Morton -
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler -
Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
Nuala O'Faolain
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You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin -
I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.
Julia Butterfly Hill -
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
Haruki Murakami -
I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature.
Adolf Hitler -
When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.
Zicheng Hong -
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
Bill Clinton
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The idea of dying is worse than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that another has died.
Marcel Proust -
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
Rudyard Kipling -
Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing.
Ally Carter -
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Nancy Mitford