Famous quotes containing the words animal, cruelty and/or case:
“Man is the only animal that laughs or weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. We weep at what thwarts or exceeds our desires in serious matters; we laugh at what only disappoints our expectations in trifles.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (18741936)
“The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it isgreatlittlegoodbadindifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)