William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes about Kindness

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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Inspirational, Inspiring, Kindness

William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.243, Diversion Books

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness, Proud, Disagree

"The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through the World: Shewing who Robbed Him, who Helped Him, and who Passed Him by".

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness, Men, Mind

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4253, Delphi Classics

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness, Suffering, World

William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

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?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Gratitude, Kindness, Children

William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends”, p.33

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness, Pockets, Cost

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindness, Giving, Kind

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2821, Delphi Classics