Kindly Quotes

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. (Jane Austen)
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . . View quote
George Eliot
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. View quote
Emily Dickinson
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent-that is to triumph over old age. View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. View quote
Lionel Blue
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. View quote
John Adams
The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness. View quote
George Eliot
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Lovers to-day and for all time Preserve the meaning of my rhyme: Love is not kindly nor yet grim But does to you as you to him. View quote
Robert Graves
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind. (William Saroyan)
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways. View quote
David Gemmell
Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress. View quote
William Howard Taft
The kind of lecture which I have been so kindly invited to give, and which now appears in book form, gives one a rare opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual. View quote
Hermann Bondi
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma. View quote
John Steinbeck
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as "Call Me God") to KCMG ("Kindly Call Me God") to GCMG. View quote
Anthony Sampson
We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt. (Ogden Nash)
Warm summer sun, shine kindly here Warm southern wind, blow softly here Green sod above, lie light, lie light Good night, dear heart, good night, good night. View quote
Mark Twain
The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic. View quote
Jean Paul
I was very glad when Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the late war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely, that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and it proved unconquerable. It fell to me to express it and if I found the right word you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen, and by my tongue. View quote
Winston Churchill
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God. View quote
Ronald Reagan