False Kindness Quotes

Charity conceals a stupid cruelty, because it is not courageous enough to face unpleasant facts.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.

It hurts not the tongue to give faire words.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Don't talk to me about people who are 'nice' cause I have spent my whole life in ruins because of people who are 'nice'.

Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.