Quotes About Kindness

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life. I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think.

Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

No! Thank you for thinking I am thoughtful.

She talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.

Where there is a wish to please, one ought to overlook, and one does overlook a great deal.

Indeed how can one care for those one has never seen?

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Her heart was made for love and kindness, not for resentment.

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Elizabeth received them with all the forbearance of civility

These are the sights, Harriet, to do one good. How trifling they make every thing else appear!---I feel now as if I could think of nothing but these poor creatures all the rest of the day; and yet, who can say how soon it may all vanish from my mind?

I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. But if we do not venture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her daughters must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.

Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu buen carácter, tu bondad, no podrá embargarme esa dicha. No, no, déjame a mi aire; y, tal vez, si me acompaña la suerte, con el tiempo pueda encontrar a otro señor Collins.

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. No

If we feel for the wretched, enough to do all we can for them, the rest is empty sympathy, only distressing to ourselves." Harriet

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

But a note had had been prepared and left for her, written in the very style to touch --a small mixture of reproach with a great deal of kindness

Es todo lo que un joven debe ser ––afirmó Jane––: sensato, alegre y divertido. ¡Nunca he conocido a un hombre tan amable y con tan exquisita educación!