Cruel Quotes - 4
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Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
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More Cruel Quotes
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn Cruel!
ernesto 'che' guevara— As quoted in An American Savage (2003) by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144
Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.
Matthew Arnold— "Poor Matthias" (1867).
The bottom of the sea is Cruel.
(Harold) Hart Crane— 1926 White Buildings,'Voyages', pt.1.
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more Cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
algernon charles swinburne— 1866 Poems and Ballads,'Dolores', stanza 20.
"You will have no credit for your virtue (if you call it such): even your best friends will not believe in it; because it is monstrous, and not to be credited but by those who suffer, from the effects of it, such Cruel torments that they know it to be indeed reality."
anne brontë— Walter to Helen (Ch. XXXVIV : A Scheme of Escape)
As it spoke I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. 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 bed-clothes: still it wailed, "Let me in!", and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.
emily brontë— Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III).
All Asiatics are Cruel dogs. All they captured of my soldiers, they beat to death. The Russian soldiers are very brave, stable, tough.
sepp dietrich— To Leon Goldensohn, February 28, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially Cruel.
christopher isherwood— "Los Angeles" from Exhumations (1966) [Methuen & Co., Ltd, London], p. 160
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza. God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly Cruel ways.
penn jillette— this statement is a rebuke to the famous assertion by William Cowper: "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm."
How Cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...
Daniel O'Connell— O’Connell’s Correspondence, Letter No 700, Vol II
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be Cruel.
ovid— Epistulae ex Ponto, II, ix, 47.
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so Cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
Robert Louis Stevenson— 314.
I started out by viewing the marketplace as a Cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.
john stossel— The Oregonian, 26 October 1994
Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs of a petty and Cruel dictator. [..] You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated. [..] Will you cease this outrage?
mahmoud ahmadinejad— Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, 24 September 2007"Iran's president at Columbia University - a transcript". azstarnet.com (24 September 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
That's the nub of the thing, you see seriousness of spirit. It doesn't mean heaviness of heart, or a lack of fantasy, but it does mean an awareness of influences that touch our lives, sometimes in ways that seem Cruel and unfeeling, and sometimes in ways that open up a glory which can never be forgotten.
Robertson Davies— Scottish Folklore and Opera (1992)
[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor Cruel but indifferent.
Richard Dawkins— "A Devil's Chaplain"
Barbara wrote that his brain frightened her. It was sharp and clear and Cruel. She admired him for being always unsentimental, but noted 'always remember to rely on yourself ... if you are in a sticky place he will be so interested in noting your reactions that he will probably forget to rescue you.'
graham greene— Norman Sherry in his biography The Life of Graham Greene, page 513, reporting Greene's cousin Barbara Greene who travelled to Liberia with him.
I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being Cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? [www.youtube.com/watch?v=THHapkLeSGo?t=24m23s]
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox - Is God Great? [2009]
That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor Cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
george mason— Article 9 (Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776))
All government is Cruel; for nothing is so Cruel as impunity.
George Bernard Shaw— Pilate, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
Let me set my mournful ditty To a merry measure; Thou wilt never come for pity, Thou wilt come for pleasure; Pity then will cut away Those Cruel wings, and thou wilt stay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. 4. (Song: Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou (1821))
In a Cruel irony, speculators - rather then elected politicians - are the shots on crisis management. In an absurd logic, those who foster financial turbulence have been invited by the G7 Finance ministers to identify policies which attenuate financial turbulence.
— Economic Warfare, Chapter 21, p. 327 (The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003))
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath: I am slain by a fair Cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, Oh, prepare it! My part of death no one so true Did share it.
— Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 52.
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a Cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me gamester.
edward moore— Edward Moore, The Gamester, Act II, scene 1.
Ah, Cruel 'tis to love, And Cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
— Odes, XXIX. (XXVII.), 1. (Quotes)
Gossip and reputation make sure that what comes around - a person who is Cruel will find that the others are Cruel hack to him, and a person who is kind will find others are kind in return. Gossip paired with reciprocity allow karma to work here on earth, not in the next life. As long as everyone plays tit-for-tat augmented by gratitude, vengeance, and gossip, the whole system should work beautifully.
— p. 55 (The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005))
Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most Cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!
Abraham Cowley— Abraham Cowley, In Commendation of the Time we live under, the Reign of our gracious King, Charles II.
I must be Cruel, only to be kind .
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 4, line 178.
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— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 448.
His [Jesus'] object was the reformation of some articles in the religion of the Jews, as taught by Moses. That sect had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, Cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.
— Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, August 4, 1820, on his reason for compiling the Syllabus of an Estimate of the Merit of the Doctrines of Jesus. Published in Thomas Jefferson: Writings, Merrill D. Peterson, ed., New York: Library of America, 1994, pp. 1435–1440.[27].
