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 (15641616)
“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 (19131976)
“Shes 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. 912)
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