“I found out he's a bad breaker-upper…you know when you break up, how you say things you don't mean? Well, he says the mean things you don't mean, but he means them.”— Spike Feresten, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“Well, you really got bald there, didn't you?”— Sam Kass, Larry David, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“We just tease someone 'til they develop an eating disorder.”— Larry Charles, Elaine Benes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, imdb.com
“You know how there's some people you worry about whether you're going to hurt their feelings? With her, I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to get it on video, watch it in slow motion and freeze-frame it. Oh ho, yeah.”— Larry David, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“That's it. This is it. I'm done. Through. It's over. I'm gone. Finished. Over. I will never work for you again. Look at you. You think you're an important man? Is that what you think? You are a laughingstock. You are a joke. These people are laughing at you. You're nothing! You have no brains, no ab…”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“You can't win. You can't beat me. That's why I'm here and you're there. Because I'm a winner. I'll always be a winner and you'll always be a loser.”— Larry David, Rick Levitan, Fred Applegate, imdb.com
“If God’s glory be declared and made manifest, even by the miseries which some creatures sustain, dare you therefore accuse God of cruelty? Consider your bold foolishness, and repent your blasphemies before vengeance strike.”— John Knox, amazon.com
“Sometimes we are angry, and we have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give us the right to be cruel.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“It’s very strange that the people you love are often the people you’re most cruel to.”— Kenneth Branagh, m.imdb.com
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repai…”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com