Kind Quotes

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Thom Gunn

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts

Barbara Cartland

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Isaac Barrow

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

Ann Coulter

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Charles L. Lucas

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy.

O. B. Smith

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way

George Bernard Shaw

Solitude is a kind of freedom.

Umberto Eco

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

Christopher Hitchens

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has

Randolph Bourne

The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

William Shakespeare

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Joseph Addison

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Robert Wyatt

The aim of a true achievement must lie, not in futile efforts towards the complete accommodation of man to circumstances in which he chances to find himself, but in the maintenance of a kind of candid discontent, in the face of the very highest achie.

Walter Horatio Pater
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