#cruelty

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

— Rue McClanahan

#fashion #fashion statement #statement #without

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#art #baseness #beauty #best #best part

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#atonement #baseness #cruelty #deed #deep

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#children #cruelty #i #i can #least

Tom watched with his arms folded as the life that had been within Kobe died out, and the fire continued. ↗

— Keisha Keenleyside

#cruelty #dogs #pets #sad #life

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... ↗

— James Hurst

#hurst #ibis #james #knot #love