I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Cole Younger

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Tilda Swinton

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
Joanna Trollope

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
Roma Downey

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
Rowan D. Williams

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
James Oliver

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
Publilius Syrus

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Mencius

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King Solomon

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley