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Quotes About Cruelly

cruelly unjust both in their act and their thought, accompanied by a feeling that they are helping the world to receive its deserts; men who are honest can blindly go on robbing others of their
~ Rabindranath Tagore
He would not confess, even to himself, that age was beginning to hamper him so cruelly. And he sought to do all the things he had once done—if the Mistress or the Master were looking. But when he was alone, or with the other dogs, he spared himself every needless step. And he slept a great deal.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.
~ William Shakespeare
In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.
~ Alain de Botton
Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!
~ Martha Ostenso
We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified
~ George Bernard Shaw
Redundancy of function is always more reliable than attempts at perfection, which time treats cruelly.
~ Stewart Brand
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
~ Sylvia Plath
Rescue, however, had many names, and the rope up which a maiden climbed to safety might be used to bind her most cruelly.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Ah, piteous boy, Fortune came smiling; was it in jealousy that she then cruelly denied you to me
~ Virgil