Unkindness Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real… — Nelson DeMille
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. — Grantland Rice
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath… — John Owen
In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men… — Benjamin Rush
Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often… — Richard G. Scott
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. — Mother Teresa
Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself. — Adrienne Monnier
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little… — Thomas Brooks
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could. — Joan of Arc
I went whenever I could, and always my eyes lifted to the hills. I was to find a spiritual and physical satisfaction in climbing mountains… — Alfred Wainwright
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P.J. O'Rourke
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christâ€™s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary… — Charles Spurgeon
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and… — Paramahansa Yogananda
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness. — Mother Teresa
The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness… — Carolyn Mahaney
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. — Hosea Ballou
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others. — Jeremy Bentham

Who Wrote These Unkindness Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 47 Unkindness Quotes, led by these top contributors: