Kindness Quote by George Eliot

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the…

— Aldous Huxley

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

— Oscar Wilde

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique…

— Anonymous

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

— Benjamin Franklin

“suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn.…

— James Hilton

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply it's bareness, it's dinginess, it's…

— George Orwell

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

— Ernest Hemingway

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen