Kindly Quotes
308 Kindly quotes by 246 unique authors
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It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?" "Yes," Jace…
— Cassandra Clare
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Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We assured Phelan that we were more than happy to let him have you and your menagerie,” Leo retorted. “After that, he said he needed…
— Lisa Kleypas
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For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts…
— Saint Augustine
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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who…
— Susanna Clarke
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I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that,…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some…
— Michael Cunningham
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There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark:…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into…
— Charles Dickens
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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who…
— Susanna Clarke
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So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very…
— Cassandra Clare
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Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.
— Pittacus Lore
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-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.
— Larry McMurtry
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are…
— Albert Schweitzer
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This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment…
— Rick Riordan
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Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow,…
— John Steinbeck
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of…
— William Butler Yeats
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He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet…
— Cassandra Clare
Who Wrote These Kindly Quotes
246 authors contributed a total of 308 Kindly Quotes, led by these top contributors: