"Unkindness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comforted by this conversation; and yet I was not altogether displeased to find that Hawkesbury agreed with me in condemning Harris's conduct, and his last argument, though it took away nothing from my unkindness, certainly did strike me. However unpleasant and cruel Jack's treatment had been, one must remember that the story told about him was true. Yes, it was a great consolation to feel that, whatever else had happened, no ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... pulpit, for the first time in Georgia, desecrated by political philippics. Pierce then, as now, was the leading minister of the Methodist Church in the State, and abstained in the pulpit, but made no secret of his preferences upon the street. Duffie travelled everywhere. He had by unkindness driven from him his wife with her infant child, and, in her helpless and desperate condition, she had taken refuge with the Shaking Quakers in the West, and remained with them until her death. His son came ...
— The Memories of Fifty Years • William H. Sparks
... Of great unkindness and of usage hard Of Cynthia, the Lady of the Sea, Which from her presence faultless ...
— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse
... should observe," said he smiling, "that even the unkindness of your refusal would not change my endeavour. I only give you, as in honour bound, the chance of doing all you can to prevent my succeeding. Will ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner
... God," said the bishop, as if he were musing. "But tell me, my friend, how it is you take to heart so keenly the unkindness of fate (as you call it) to yourself, while thousands are buffeted by misfortunes, perhaps as great as your own, and yet maintain equanimity of mind, and even ...
— The French Prisoners of Norman Cross - A Tale • Arthur Brown
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