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Cruelty: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O, be thou damn'd, inexorable dog! And for thy life let justice be accus'd. Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit, Govern'd a wolf; who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And whilst thou layest in thy unhallow'd dam, Infus'd itself in thee; for thy desires Aré wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous.— M. V. iv. 1

continued. I am sorry for thee; thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy.— M. V. iv. 1.

See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears; This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my sweet boy, And I with tears do wash the blood away, aways: Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this: And, if thou tell'st the heavy story right, Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears; Yea, even my foes will shed fast-falling tears; And say, Alas, it was a piteous deed! H. VI. PT. III. i. 4. She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth! How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex, To triumph like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!— H. VI. PT. III. 1. 4

But neither bended knees, pure hands held up, Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, Could penetrate her uncompassionate siro.— T. G. iii. 1