Kindly Quotes
308 Kindly quotes by 246 unique authors
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You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old…
— Brandon Sanderson
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I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth.…
— Eloisa James
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A guest never forgets the host who has treated him kindly.
— Homer
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Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors…
— Kate Morton
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Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from…
— Haruki Murakami
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Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it…
— Buster Keaton
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In that last dance of chances I shall partner you no more. I shall watch another turn you As you move across the floor. In…
— Robin Hobb
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Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything.…
— Tamora Pierce
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I find it hard to believe that a lady like...’ Pertellis hesitated, and coughed. ‘There is something elevated in the female spirit that will always…
— Frances Hardinge
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Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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I’m so sorry we’ll never meet,” she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payne’s grave. “But thank you. For him. I…
— Tessa Dare
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I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It…
— Anne Sexton
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To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn…
— Mindy Kaling
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Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow their faces…
— Orson Scott Card
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You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.
— Patricia Briggs
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Being remembered, and remembered so kindly, touched him more than he would have thought possible.
— Cassandra Clare
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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;…
— William Shakespeare
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My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
— William Shakespeare
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Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many…
— Anton Chekhov
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him…
— John of Kronstadt
Who Wrote These Kindly Quotes
246 authors contributed a total of 308 Kindly Quotes, led by these top contributors: