Cruel

Famous quotes containing the word cruel:

    Quince. Marry, our play is “The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe.”
    Bottom. A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength & freedom. The beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)

    She’s taen out her little pen-knife,
    Fine flowers in the valley,
    And twinned the sweet babe o’ its life,
    And the green leaves they grow rarely.
    —Unknown. The Cruel Mother (l. 9–12)