Quote by Sir Hall Caine

“I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.”

— Robert Burns

“There was is no skill or grace in being rude or obnoxious. There is transformation and growth in being compassionate and kind.”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

“I’ve always been treated in a friendly manner, and even people I hardly know have rarely been rude or brusque or cold to me.…

— Fernando Pessoa

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

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

— Amy Engel

“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Words of kindness had always been more difficult for me to handle than harsh reprimands. Ever since I had been quite young, I could…

— Ann Howard Creel

“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others. Warmth and enthusiasm did captivate her still. She felt that she could…

— Jane Austen

“You will usually find two kind of people around Some Sympathetic and Some Antipathetic and I'm not concerned with the former”

— Waqas Bin Ehsan

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.”

— Alice Hoffman

“quiet, unprovocative, unfailingly polite to one another and to them, and whose occasional sadness bore the stamp of a dignity their jailers could never…

— Helen Rappaport