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Cruelty: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

V Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!— BURNS — Man Was Made to Mourn.

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. III. L. 326.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.— HOOD — Song of the Shirt.

An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more, The reign of violence is o'er!"— LONGFELLOW — The Occultation of Orion. St. 6.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.— MACAULAY — History of England. Vol. I. Ch. II.

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.— Shakespeare — Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 448.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 178.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been; 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 74.

See what a rent the envious Casca made. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L.

Contre les rebelles c'est cruauté qued'estre humain, et humanité d'estre cruel. It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. C. Attributed to CHARLES IX.— According

to M. FOURNIER, an expression taken from a sermon of CORNEILLE MUIS, BISHOP OF BITOUTE. Used by