I Must Be Cruel Only To Be Kind Quotes

#1. As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

Pranab Mukherjee

#2. I must be cruel only to be kind

William Shakespeare

#3. Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ...

Edward Albee

#4. For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

#5. You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways. You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is, you need to put forth what you want to attract.

Wayne Dyer

#6. And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

Melina Marchetta

#7. Not everyone will have the heart you have. Not everyone will appreciate you and what you do for them. Sometimes it won't be easy having a kind heart in a cruel world. Be prepared.

Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

#8. I had a tutor who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was - but now I think he was also right.

Holly Black

#9. God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

Meher Baba

#10. I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour.

Morris Gleitzman

#11. Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

Stephenie Meyer

#12. She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

Brom

#14. I hope you end up caring about Bree as much as I do, though that's kind of a cruel wish. You know this: it doesn't end well for her. But at least you will know the whole story. And that no perspective is every really trivial.

Stephenie Meyer

#15. Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears

Aya Kito

#16. One, no matter how much they love you - or don't love you - has the power to change you, Elise. That's all you. You choose to be happy or bitter or cruel or kind.

J.D. Robb