Kindness quotes

“- Bessie: I wish we could get along.
- Lee: We do get along.
- Bessie: No I know, but I mean really get along and be polite with one another.
- Lee: We're sisters.”
Diane Keaton - Bessie
Meryl Streep - Lee

“Kind treatment makes good horses, Joe. Bad treatment ruins them.”
Jim Carter - John Manly

“- Paula Alquist: This night will be a long night.
- Brian Cameron: But it will end. It's starting to clear. In the morning when the sun rises, sometimes it's hard to believe there ever was a night. You'll find that, too. Let me come here and see you and talk to you. Perhaps I can help somehow.
- Paula Alquist: You're very kind.”
Ingrid Bergman - Paula Alquist
Joseph Cotten - Brian Cameron

“- Prior Walter: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Ethel Rosenberg: Well that's a stupid thing to do.”
Justin Kirk - Prior Walter
Meryl Streep - Ethel Rosenberg

“Never ignore a man's courtesy.”
Philip Baker Hall - Sydney

“Kindness is the most important thing.”
Michael Ironside - Fred Skolnick

“There was a time when I would have given my life for a kind word from you.”

Rebecca De Mornay - Countess D'Winter

“- Wilma Cameron: Tell me the truth, Homer. Do you want me to forget about you?
- Homer Parrish: I want you to be free, Wilma, to live your own life. I don't want you tied down forever just because you've got a kind heart.”
Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron
Harold Russell - Homer Parrish

- Botch: They love to be friendly except they rush around so much, they don't have the time to be friendly.
- Ralph: The "what" don't they?
- Botch: The time. They have clocks and watches on their wrists which tell them the time they don't have because they are always rushing.
Marshall Efron - Synonamess Botch
Lorenzo Music - Ralph, the All-Purpose Animal

“- Kirk Lawrence: You've been awfully kind. I'll never forget you.
- Tira: No one ever does.”
Kent Taylor - Kirk Lawrence
Mae West - Tira

“Come in, my poor friend. No one will hurt you here. If you're in trouble, perhaps I can help you. But you need not tell me about it if you don't want to. What's the matter? You're hurt, my poor friend.”

O.P. Heggie - Hermit

“- Sonya: I forgot that there was still some kindness in the world. Thank you.
- Roderick Raskolnikov: I forgot there was still some beauty in it.”
Marian Marsh - Sonya
Peter Lorre - Roderick Raskolnikov

“- Niki: There's room for two in there, if they was cozy.
- Wolff: Well, we ain't cozy.”
Molly Ringwald - Niki
Peter Strauss - Wolff

“- Jeff: You should know, I'm a black belt.
- John Connor: But of course you are dear.”
James Oliver Bullock - Jeff
Sir Sean Connery - Capt. John Connor

“If people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is, and how it keeps a good mouth and a good temper...”
Alan Cumming - Black Beauty

“When she was young, foolish, I made decisions for her, always the right decisions. One would think a child would wish to repay her mother's love and kindness.”

Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale

“- Fergus: Did he ever tell you you were beautiful?
- Dil: All the time. Even now.
- Fergus: What do you mean?
- Dil: He looks after me. He's a gentleman, too.”

Stephen Rea - Fergus
Jaye Davidson - Dil

“- Luke Martin: I'm not a very nice person.
- Sally Hyde: You are to me.”
Jon Voight - Luke Martin
Jane Seymour Fonda - Sally Hyde

“I is a nice giant! I is a freaky giant! There's not another giant like me in all of Giant Country! I...is the Big Friendly Giant!”
David Jason - The BFG

“- Aunt Edna: You're the ones who sent me the fruitcake for Christmas. It made me so sick!
- Ellen Griswold: Oh, we're sorry. We thought you enjoyed fruitcake.
- Aunt Edna: Do you enjoy throwing up every five minutes Claude?”
Imogene Coca - Aunt Edna
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold

“- Cappie: I was out with this terrible case of hepatitis for a couple months. And he came by my house everyday and brought my books to me. I still don't know why he did.
- Maggie: Because you're nice to him.
- Cappie: I didn't used to be. I used to treat him like everybody else does.
- Maggie: Why do people do that?
- Cappie: I don't know,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Charlie Sheen - Cappie
Kerri Green - Maggie

“You're a nice guy. But you've got to remember that nice guys always leave when ladies ask them to.”

Ann Sheridan - Cassie Hartley

“- Boolie Werthan: How are you, Idella?
- Idella: Living.”
Dan Aykroyd - Boolie Werthan
Esther Rolle - Idella

“They're very gentle people. They'll never punish a child or even speak harshly to it. So of course the kids are extremely well-behaved, and their games are cute and inventive.”

Paddy O'Byrne - Narrator

“- Lampy: You were never this nice to him before, and all of a sudden now you're nice to him all the time, and I don't know. I'm, uh, I'm just trying to understand, trying to figure out what it all means.
- Toaster: Well, it's kind of hard to describe. It's like being next to a new loaf of bread.”

Timothy Stack - Lampy
Deanna Oliver - Toaster