Quotes with cruel

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  • Matthew Prior Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Randolph He that's merciful unto the bad, is cruel to the good.
    The Muse's Looking Glass
    Thomas Randolph
    English poet and playwright (1605 - 1635)
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  • Emily Brontë How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Les Brown I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Aaron Eckhart I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Ann Coulter If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Bill Watterson It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Juvenal Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • August Strindberg People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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