Kindness Quote by Mark Twain

“She felt listless, tragic, and slightly murderous. She was irritable and prickly with exactly those people who were the kindest to her.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“They hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses.”

— Marie-Helene Bertino

“She had to work to find her outrage again. When she did, it was whimpering in delight.”

— Thea Harrison

“He inhaled deeply and exhaled the word “people.” Not so much an indictment as in wonderment. That there could be so much deliberate cruelty…

— Louise Penny

“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless…

— Jack Ketchum

“I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.”

— Andrew Tobias

“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“but there was no curiosity in those faces, and no anger, and no mercy.”

— Ayn Rand

“All he asked of her was basic civility and an ounce of propriety, but she was like one of her sea creatures, goaded by…

— Anonymous

“Some offered such rude comfort as their sympathetic hearts but not too fecund intellects could devise,”

— Sir Hall Caine

“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.”

— Amy Engel