Unkindness Quotes

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

William Shakespeare

A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. She stamped her little foot at me."He pointed down to her toes as if she were a child yet.Then he straightened his shoulders. "But I sent her back to the nursery, where she belonged, and told her to play with her dolls instead. As everyone knows, a female on a hunt is a distraction at best and bad luck at worse."Which explained why Beatrice went into the woods with her hound alone, George thought. She looked now as though she had gone to some other place where she could not hear her father's words and thus could not be hurt by them. George wondered how often she was forced to go to that place.Did King Helm not see how much she was like him? It seemed she was rejected for any sign of femininity yet also rejected for not showing enough femininity, How could she win?

Mette Ivie Harrison

Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with misery, all they canIs to hate their fello

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

One bad turn does not excuse another.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Ugly and ungainly. The least dependable creature you ever met. Just when you think you understand her, she changes. If only I had a son," he said bitterly.Over and over he disparaged her, and George would have thought that Beatrice would be so used to it, she could not be hurt further. But he saw her neck grow stiffer and stiffer.

Mette Ivie Harrison

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.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

Shannon L. Alder

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.