Quotes about Kindness
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
— Charles Dickens
Boy, be for ever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand
— Charles Dickens
The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. He has not relinquished her patient hand in getting out, but still holds it as he promised. He gently places her with her back to the crashing engine that constantly whirrs up and falls, and she looks into his face and thanks him.
— Charles Dickens
Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.
— Charles Dickens
Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.
— Charles Dickens
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
— Charles Dickens
Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!
— Charles Dickens
Nobody was hard with him or with me. There was duty to be done, and it was done, but not harshly.
— Charles Dickens
A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
— Charles Dickens
Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.
— Charles Dickens
Christmas-time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave.
— Charles Dickens
Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
— Charles Dickens