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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. - Anna Sewell A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy. - William Shakespeare I must be cruel only to be kind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv) See what a rent the envious Casca made. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii) Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Cromwell at V, iii) And you, enchantment, Worthy enough a herdsman--yea, him too, That makes himself, but for our honor therein, Unworthy thee-if ever henceforth thou These rural latches to his entrance open, Or hoop his body more with thy embraces, I will devise a death as cruel for thee As thou art tender to't. - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at IV, iv) Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at I, v) Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. - George Bernard Shaw Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. - Edith Sitwell Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 158) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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