Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.
I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.
This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.
He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.
How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.
Remember what I’ve told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)