Quotes About Kindness

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.

Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

One must have consideration for those less gifted than oneself.

I successfully chloroformed a hedgehog that was entangled in the tennis net and so managed to release it.

She was a very good, kind woman. I could not have continued to live in the same house with her, but I did recognize her intrinsic worth.

Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

The innocent must not suffer.

Mr. Hastings—you are always so kind, and you know such a lot." It struck me at this moment that Cynthia was really a very charming girl! Much more charming than Mary, who never said things of that kind.

She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. 'I didn't want to kill anybody.' What she wanted was a great deal of money that didn't belong to her! And before that desire—(and it had become a kind of obsession—the money was to pay her back for all the suffering life had inflicted on her)—everything else went to the wall.

When a man has a charming, gracious, intelligent wife, he's no business to treat her badly.

one of the worst things in the world today, the unkindness of woman to woman.

Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.

It is necessary to tell a woman at least once a week, and preferably three or four times, that we love her; and that it is also wise to bring her a few flowers, to pay her a few compliments, to tell her that she looks well in her new dress or new hat.

That was ever so kind of you, Mrs. Bantry. I must say I wouldn't have dared myself." "One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere," said Mrs. Bantry.

My husband's a very good man," she said. "Besides being the vicar, I mean. And that makes things difficult sometimes. Good people, you see, don't really understand evil." She paused and then said with a kind of brisk efficiency, "I think it had better be me.

You do not like anyone less because they have tuberculosis or some other fatal disease.

I always help old ladies over crossings, and pick up parcels for old gentlemen, in case they should turn out to be eccentric millionaires. But not one of them has ever asked me my name — and quite a lot never said 'Thank you.

Women, Mademoiselle, are generous. If they can render a service to one who has rendered a service to them, they will do it. I was generous once to you, Mademoiselle. When I might have spoken, I held my tongue.

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.

Not selfish things, not things for herself; who could give to unwanted children love, care, a home. All these things she could buy for them, but not their love for her.

Then her story and the way she told it had touched his heart. That she should have tried to understand - to offer help - and been turned away so often. Oh, he would not turn her away, he would take what she had to give and count himself rich for it.

How you treat others is a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz