Cruelty Quotes and Sayings
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Thomas Paine
Cruelty has never made me smile.
- David Mitchell
Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.
- Shannon L. Alder
I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.
- Tom Hiddleston
Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.
- Will Schwalbe
Must be cruel only to be kind.
- William Shakespeare
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
- Rabindranath Tagore
That cruelty is part of nature is the little lie. That cruelty is part of human nature is the big one.
- Tom Fahy
Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
- Honore de Balzac
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
- Walter Scott
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
- Gilbert Parker
If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.
- Haruo Shirane
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
- Bette Greene
In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.
- Robert Jordan
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
- Tennessee Williams
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
- Veronica Roth
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
- Oscar Wilde
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.
- Jonathan Safran Foer