My mother taught me not to throw stones at cripples. But my father taught me to aim for their head.
Men are cruel to prove they’re not weak, but they doth protest too much.
It is a never-ending inconvenience, this insistence of the people being fed.
I’ve fought battles from the Bloodcliffs to the Dalamor Plain. I’ve never seen a beast of such savagery.[Ambessa]No beast is more savage than man.[Singed]
Human beings are cruel to people that are different from them.
Cruelty must be met with cruelty.
Buried, burned? This is good meat. Feed it to the hounds.
At times, peace can only be achieved through cruel war.
You won’t get anywhere in life if you don’t have the courage to be cruel now and then, just for the pure animal joy of it.[to Jasper]
Why shoot you now when I can wait and have you savaged by an Irish wolfhound?[to Rupert]
When people are afraid, they often behave with cruelty.
They all deserve to suffer. It’s an acquired taste, seeing others in pain.
