Best Kindliness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“{On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank. Burbank was much beloved by the population unil in an interview he revealed that he was an atheist. After this, the public turned on him and sent him thousands of letters with death threats. This upset the kind-hearted Burbank, who tried to amiably reply to each letter, so much that it ultimately led to his death} . . . he was misled into believing that logic, kindliness, and reason could convince and help the bigoted. He fell sick. The sickness was fated to be his last. What killed Luther Burbank, at just that time and in just that abrupt and tragic fashion, was his baffled, yearning, desperate effort to make people understand. His desire to help them, to clarify their minds, and to induce them to substitute fact for hysteria drove him beyond his strength. He grew suddenly old attempting to make reasonable a people which had been unreasonable through twenty stiff-necked generations. . . He died, not a martyr to truth, but a victim of the fatuity of blasting dogged falsehood.”

Reason Death Desire Understanding Friendship Logic Tragedy Victim Desperate Tragic Help Falsehood Martyr Hysteria Kindliness Bigoted Luther Burbank Burbank

Author:Wilbur Hale

“He thought because she was beautiful she would be kind; but kindliness requires imagination and intellect.”

Beauty Kindliness

Author:Oscar Wilde

“War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.”

War Dream Light Grows Peace Black Mankind Thousand Fabric Curtains Here And There Dense Gleam Kindliness

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“How can kindliness rule that man Who eateth other flesh to increase his own?”

Increase Flesh Kindliness

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”

Ifs Men Feels Soul Ends Force Attention Grace Duty Ought Habit Office Sake Earnest Persevere God's Grace Kindliness

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.”

Heart Joy Nature Pleasure Pay Air Sweet Stones Safety Mood Secure Ease Indifferent Tribute Vacant Kindliness Pleasure Love

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”

Mind Doe Seems Animal Kindness Instinct Grades Rooted Idiocy Top Down Kindliness Animal Instinct

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.”

Men Nature Kindness Nobility Good Nature Kindliness

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.”

Men Humanity Forget Reflection Fruit Sake Selfish Genuine Discourse Gross Politeness Constrain Small Acts Forget Him Kindliness

Book:History of English Literature

Source: History of English Literature

“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one's parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as "self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.”

“The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

Mind Heart Rooms Divine Habit Charity Intellect Breathe Tolerance Senses Faculty Alas Cannibal Magnanimity Kindliness

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.”

Heart Self Culture Given Powerful Sacrifice Mercy Pity Impulse Streams Assistance Courtesy Demonstration Self Sacrifice Friendliness Kindliness

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Florey was not an easy personality. His drive and ambition were manifest from the day he arrived ... He could be ruthless and selfish; on the other hand, he could show kindliness, a warm humanity and, at times, sentiment and a sense of humour.”

Shows Hands Science Humanity Easy Humour Personality Ambition Warm Selfish Sentiments Manifest Ruthless Ruthlessness Kindliness

Author:Allen Drury

“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”

Ifs World Laughing Laughter Brutality Kindliness

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.”

Humans May Spirit Social Natural Existence Conditions Pages Structure Desert Frightening Human Spirit Incentives Social Structure Kindliness

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”

Mind Heart Rooms Charity Breathe Tolerance Senses Magnanimity Kindliness

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.”

Ifs Men World Should May Husband Wit Sincerity Modesty Kindliness

Book:Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Source: Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

“The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.”

Sleep Trouble Bed Kissing Males Rough Smooth Sheets Blanket Funny Sleep Funny Sleeping Kindliness Trouble Sleeping

Author:Rupert Brooke

“I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

Want Seems Night Mistake Sweet Terrible Fingers Committed Deeds Pointing Pointing Fingers Kindliness

Book:The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974

Source: The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974

“But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.”

People Made Memories Struggle Air Despair Ambition Conscious Evening Hated Passages Sober Greedy Glamour Faded Ephemeral Intoxication Incessant Indescribable Gloss Kindliness

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.”

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.”

Men World Needs Long Doe Motivational Past Kindness Courage Atheist Ignorant Humanist Long Ago Kindliness Regretful Hankering

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

Memories Evening Glamour Faded Ephemeral Intoxication Indescribable Gloss Kindliness

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.”

Thinking Life Art Matter Simple Share Approach Highest Perfection And Love Lovely Generous Provoking Faith And Love Kindliness

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.”