Unkindness

Unkindness is an absence of kindness.

Quotes

 * If we cannot accommodate a viewpoint in a friend without resorting to unkindness, how can we hope to heal the terrible problems of our planet? I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.
 * Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase : My Climb Out of Darkness (2004).


 * She hath tied Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture here.
 * William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 136.


 * Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
 * William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act IV, scene 2, line 158.


 * In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
 * William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act III, scene 4, line 401.


 * When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue, And Meekness is writhing in torment and thrall, By the hands of Ingratitude wrung, — In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, While the anguish is festering yet, None, none but an angel or God can declare "I now can forgive and forget."
 * Martin Farquhar Tupper, Forgive and Forget, lines 1-8.


 * Whenever you honor the honorable, you possess them. Whenever you honor the ignoble, they rebel.
 * Al-Mutanabbi

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 828.


 * As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
 * Hosea Ballou, MS, Sermons.


 * My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.
 * As it appeared in William Davenant's Rivals, an alteration of Beaumont and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen. Attributed by Boosey (publishers), to John Gay.


 * Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear it forced to flow.
 * Thomas Gray, Eton College, Stanza 8.


 * Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; Oh, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
 * Hannah More, Sensibility.