# Quotes about kindness - Quotes: 17 - Authors: 11 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness ## Quotes > One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [A Modern Utopia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/a-modern-utopia.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/a-modern-utopia/one-of-the.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/there-is-no-charm.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/general-benevolence-but.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > "The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by uttermost self-sacrifice." [Mahatma Gandhi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi.md) · [Hind Swaraj](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi/hind-swaraj.md) · p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mahatma-gandhi/hind-swaraj/the-only-real.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > "There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/there-certainly-was.md) Topics: [appearances](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearances.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > Miss Bennet was the only creature who could suppose there might be any extenuating circumstances in the case, unknown to the society of Hertfordshire; her mild and steady candour always pleaded for allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes—but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/miss-bennet-was.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > "Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see a fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in your life." > > "I would not wish to be hasty in censuring anyone; but I always speak what I think." > > "I know you do; and it is that which makes the wonder. With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. And so you like this man's sisters, too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/oh-you-are.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > Good, the more > > Communicated, more abundant grows. [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/good-the-more.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > Abashed the Devil stood, > > And felt how awful goodness is, and saw > > Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined > > His loss. [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/abashed-the-devil.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps > > At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity > > Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill > > Where no ill seems. [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md) · [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost/and-oft-though.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > Benevolence is the foundation of Justice, since we are forbidden to injure those we are bound to assist. A prophet may reveal the secrets of Heaven and futurity, but in his moral precepts he can only repeat the lessons of our own hearts. [Edward Gibbon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon.md) · [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edward-gibbon/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/benevolence-is-the.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > ...there are more things to admire in men than to despise. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [The Plague](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/the-plague/there-are-more.md) Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many. It is not so important that many should be as good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. [Henry David Thoreau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau.md) · [Civil Disobedience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-david-thoreau/civil-disobedience/we-are-accustomed.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > It’s the little things that smooths people’s roads the most, down here below. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/its-the-little.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > Only charity admitteth no excess. For so we see, aspiring to be like God in power, the angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like God in knowledge, man transgressed and fell; Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum: but by aspiring to a similitude of God in goodness or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall transgress. [Francis Bacon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon.md) · [The Advancement of Learning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-advancement-of-learning/only-charity-admitteth.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md) > "I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding." > > "It is a painful reflection to me," said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, "that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him." > > "My husband, it is so. I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. But, I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things." > > She looked so beautiful in the purity of her faith in this lost man, that her husband could have looked at her as she was for hours. > > "And, O my dearest Love!" she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, "remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!" [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/i-would-ask.md) Topics: [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [compassion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion.md) > The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others. [Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr.md) · [Strength to Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love.md) · p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-luther-king-jr/strength-to-love/the-ultimate-measure.md) Topics: [character](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/character.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md)