Cold comfort farm Quote by Stella Gibbons

You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the…

— Stella Gibbons

“Another useful point to bear in mind: What qualities has nature given us to counter that defect? As an antidote to unkindness it gave…

— Marcus Aurelius

“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like…

— Guy de Maupassant

“You know that I've always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It's the people who have been deformed by society that…

— Tom Robbins

“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses…

— Charlotte Brontë

“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the…

— Giambattista Vico

“The worst kind of people are those who confuse kindness for weakness.”

— Werner Makowski

“there were people in the world who, for all their gruff arrogance, can, with scarcely a few notes, easily persuade you they are inherently…

— André Aciman

“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind…

— Tahereh Mafi

“At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, suffering and bitter resentment. How many beautiful,…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“How dare you treat an animal unkind? When you were created to nature and take care of these... How hateful and evil your soul,…

— Lerato Peu

“Nothing human disgusts me unless its unkind”

— Tennessee Williams