Unkindness Quotes

47 quotes by 40 authors

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,… — Hannah More
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some… — George Washington Carver
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. — George Eliot
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. — William Shakespeare
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment,… — Jane Austen
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. — Mother Teresa
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a… — Deanna Raybourn
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he… — John Owen
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end.… — Rohinton Mistry
I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets. — Jennifer Weiner
Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. — Neil Gaiman
And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. — William Shakespeare
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act… — Karen Armstrong
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done,… — Enid Blyton
All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In… — Bell Hooks
There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Unkindness is quite a major sin. — John Rhys-Davies

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