Quotes about Cruel
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature; and the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass, was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter, and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home.
- George Eliot
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home
- Audre Lorde
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
- Anonymous
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.
- John Bevere
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
- Joseph Addison