"People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel."

Cruelty, Humanity, Animals, Art

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel."

Exlpore more Cruelty quotes

"Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Cruelty, Hunting, Fear, Deception

"Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Cruelty, Animals, Violence, Injustice

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Cruelty,

"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."

Dinah Sheridan, English Actress

Cruelty, Divorce, England, Years

"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Cruelty, Kindness, Truth, Regret, Power

"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

Cruelty, Victims

"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Cruelty, Existence, Irony, Acceptance

"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."

Rue McClanahan, American Actress

Cruelty, Fashion

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Cruelty, Hurt

"Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?"

Soledad O'Brien, American Journalist

Cruelty,

Explore more quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"

Justice

"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."

Reality

"A wise man is not afraid to face the truth."

Wisdom

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Regret

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

Philosophy

"You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just."

Courage

"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."

Doubt

"Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past..."

Reflection

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

Emotion

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Ethics