Unkindness Quotes - Page 2

• As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Honor, Remedy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Oysters

  "The Chronicles of Clovis". Book by Hector Hugh Munro, 1911.

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• Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

  Rick Warren

  Pain, Kindness, People

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 01, 2012

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• Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Loss, Filling Up

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• I tremble for our world, where, in the smallest ways, we find it impossible, as Marshall Hodgson enjoined, to find room for the other in our minds. If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.

  Karen Armstrong

  Thinking, Our World, Mind

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.333, Vintage Canada

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• Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

  Enid Blyton

  Kindness, Punishment, Wish

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• Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Ties, Broken

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• Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

  Judith Viorst

  Marriage, Caring, Atmosphere

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• I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Hurt, Littles, Pockets

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• I really didn't want to be a part of the world because I found that the world was filled with unkindness. People didn't love each other.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, World, Want

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• a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Clever, Unjust, Enough

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heart, Character, Love Is

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.6307, e-artnow

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• Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

  Richard G. Scott

  Giving, Hatred, Feelings

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• Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness; ask for nothing in return.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Choices, Be Kind

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Art, Eye

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.306

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

  Edna O'Brien

  Cutting, People, Kind

  Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume

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• I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Believe, Past

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.

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• When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.

  Reginald Heber

  Death, Looks, Veils

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• Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Temptation, Littles

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.31

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• I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Gratitude, Children

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• Give me a bowl of wine,
  In this I bury all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Giving, Bacchus

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.488

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• There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

  Seneca the Younger

  Needs, May, Helping

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Attachment, Punishment

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.92, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

  Philip Pullman

  Kindness, Book, People

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