Cruelty Quotes

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

Lord Byron
- Luxury
- Tyranny
- Despotism
Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Tacitus
- Tears
- Cruelty
- Weakened

There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.

George Clooney
- Trying
- Fall
- Certain
The secret of poetry is cruelty.

John Roy Anderson Yes
- Poetry
- Secret
- Poetry Is
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Oscar Wilde
- Joy
- Place
- Pleasure
The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

Sukarno
- Human
- Isolation
- Cruelty
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

Morarji Desai
- Believe
- Form
- Preventing
I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

William Hogarth