“I loathe deliberate cruelty because I'm a soldier, not a sadist.”
G.D. Spradlin - Gen. Bentley Durrell

“I saw your face. It was the face of a depraved, murderous beast. Only two things ever meant anything to you: power and cruelty. You can't feel pity. You can't even feel guilt.”

William Eythe - Gerald Tetley

“I don't like your work, Conover. I've seen quite a bit of it both here in London and and elsewhere on the continent. Don't like the smell of you either. That underground smell, the sick sweetness of decay. You haven't robbed and killed merely for gain like any ordinary halfway decent thug. No, you're in love with cruelty for it's own sake.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Doctor Watson: A woman? You amaze me, Holmes. Why a woman?
- Sherlock Holmes: Because the method, whatever it is, is particularly subtle and cruel. Feline, not canine.”

Nigel Bruce - Doctor Watson
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“The world can be a cruel place to an honest man.”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary