KINDNESS AND UNKINDNESS

Related Subjects: Beggar, Benevolence, Cruelty, Favor, Gentleness, Gifts, Help, Mercy, Philanthropy, Sympathy, Tenderness

1. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?—J. M. BARRIE, The Little White Bird
   

2. Have you had a kindness shown?
   Pass it on.—HENRY BURTON, Pass It On
   

3. A kindness loses its grace by being noised abroad,
   Who desires it to be remembered should forget it.—CORNEILLE, Theodore
   

4. In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away in one form or another, part of your personality, and taking into yourself part of another. He who has received them from you will hand them on to another. And how can you tell what part you may have in the future determination of the destinies of humanity?—DOSTOYEVSKY, The Idiot
   

5. Humane treatment may raise up one in whom the divine image has
   long been obscured. It is with the unfortunate, above all, that humane conduct is necessary.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The House of the Dead
   

6. Strew gladness on the paths of men—
   You will not pass this way again.—SAM W. Foss, I Shall Not Pass This Way Again
   

7. The cheerful clatter of Sir James Barrie's cans as he went round with the milk of human kindness.—PHILIP GUEDALLA, Some Critics
   

8. She doeth little kindnesses
   Which most leave undone, or despise.—LOWELL, My Love
   

9. Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.—POPE, Thoughts on Various Subjects
   

10. Not always actions show the man: we find
    Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.—POPE, Moral Essays
    

11. He merits no thanks that does a kindness for his own mind.—Proverb
    

12. Unkindness has no remedy at Law.—Proverb
    

13. He that is kinder than he was wont, hath a design upon thee.—Proverb
    

14. A forced kindness deserves no thanks.—Proverb
    

15. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?—ROUSSEAU, Emile, or Education
    

16. A little more than kin, and less than kind.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

17. This was the most unkindest cut of all.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

18. Yet do I fear thy nature;
    It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

19. The kindest man,
    The best condition'd and unwearied spirit
    In doing courtesies.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

20. To kill a wife with kindness.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

21. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
    Shall win my love.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

22. If you stop to be kind, you must swerve of ten from your path.—MARY WEBB, Precious Bane
    

23. That best portion of a good man's life,—
    His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
    Of kindness and of love.—WORDSWORTH