Quotes About Cruel To Be Kind

#1. Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

Colette McBeth

#2. Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

Nick Lowe

#3. You gotta be cruel to be kind.

William Shakespeare

#4. The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Susan Sontag

#5. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Pranab Mukherjee

#7. I must be cruel only to be kind

William Shakespeare

#8. 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

#9. There really were no chains like the ones in your head.

K.J. Charles

#10. I'm afraid for you," he'd said. "The world can be cruel to your kind." But Jesper had always wondered if maybe his father had been a little afraid of him, too.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. 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

#12. I was alone, chose to be and demanded it, for this building would complete my cycle of life. The years to this moment stretched long, yet seemed short, sometimes cruel or kind, but never the way I wanted. This house would be me.

Marie F. Martin

#13. 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

#14. Was he again
I had never forgotten that overheard phrase of Eve's
being kind to be cruel? I only knew I had been given back enough to live on. And dimly, dimly, I began to see a new Last Act to crown my play.

Dodie Smith

#15. I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

Rosamund Hodge

#16. Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Richard Dawkins

#17. It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

David Spade

#18. My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

Mackenzie Herbert

#19. It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

Al Pacino

#20. If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#21. Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. If it wasn't drugs, then there was always something else.

Brom

#22. Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone.

Sharon Gannon

#23. It is much easier to be kind than cruel.

Debasish Mridha

#24. We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#25. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

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

Meher Baba

#27. I've always kind of made sure to maintain the sense of who I am and never be mean or cruel or snotty to anyone. Because, at the end of the day, it's not going to help you last in the business, and who wants to be around someone like that? I don't want to turn into 'that guy.' That guy!

Leonardo DiCaprio

#28. What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

Alicia Keys

#29. By choosing to be kind instead of cruel, we can break the karmic chain of reacting to violence with more violence, contributing to a more peaceful future for everyone.

Sharon Gannon

#30. You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#31. According to some Christian teachings, Jesus and God ascended above the sun, the moon and the stars leaving us to be slaughtered by Satan, and then told us to come and seek them, where it would never be possible for any human to reach. What kind of a God would be so cruel to His children?

Nicky Verster

#32. 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

#33. How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.

Louise Penny

#34. One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Morarji Desai