Excessive Kindness Quotes

He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with the flu.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

One is often guilty by being too just.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.