Kind And Unkind Quotes

#1. About the great preacher. I wanted to see him through foreign eyes, kind and unkind, loving and unloving, before I looked on him with my own.

Elif Shafak

#2. If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

Anne Beatts

#3. Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#4. Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. To be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Cameron Dokey

#6. You can't go back', she told him bluntly. Her voice was neither kind nor unkind. 'That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is 'supposed to be'.

Robin Hobb

#7. Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Blaise Pascal

#8. We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. I make people uncomfortable. The kind ones get angry because their kindness doesn't work. The unkind ones get angry because they think I'm attacking them.

John Marsden

#10. In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters.

Mark Twain

#11. A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.

Carrie Jones

#12. Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return.

Brianna Wiest

#13. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.

William Wordsworth

#14. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

#15. He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Charles Spurgeon

#16. Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

#17. There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power ... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

Benjamin Constant

#18. And how could I hope to sense God's presence when I continually broke the silence, frequently had uncharitable thoughts, and above all, constantly yearned for human affection and wept when reprimanded?

Karen Armstrong

#19. People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

John Hawkes

#20. I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Has oftener left me mourning.

William Wordsworth

#21. It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind,

Winston S. Churchill

#22. Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

Jeremy Bentham

#23. I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

Max Lucado

#24. A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Cameron Dokey

#25. We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Henepola Gunaratana

#26. The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#28. If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor
as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

Erica Jong

#29. God has created us all humanHe is kind & just to all. Why should we be unkind & unjust to each other?

Abdu'l- Baha

#30. When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#31. It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

Philip Larkin

#32. Never say an unkind word to anyone.

Doug Melvin

#33. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.

Al Capone

#34. Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Rowan Williams

#35. I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

Al Capone

#36. I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. Americans are so dumb!

Bjork

#38. I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy ... that makes you unkind.

Sue Miller

#39. The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

Kevin Heath

#40. Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

Jimi Hendrix

#41. She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

Marcus Garvey