Farewell, fair cruelty.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'
When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities.
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.