William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Kindness
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.
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The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
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Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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William Makepeace Thackeray
- Born: July 18, 1811
- Died: December 24, 1863
- Occupation: Novelist
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