You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
Zuleika Dobson, ch.6.

I still hope to create a few great works and then like an old child to finish my earthly course somewhere among kind people.

-Behn, Aphra ne¤  e  Amis
  Letter to F G  Wegeler.

I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing, But now it is fled, fled far, far away.

-Cobden, Richard
  'The Flowers of the Forest'.

My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.'

-Colum, Padraic
  Wild Earth,'She Moved through the Fair'.

Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnish'd Of falsehood to be happy.

-Dryden,John
  Cleopatra.  All for Love,or The World Well Lost, act 4.

   A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetöand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  Letter to Louis Untermeyer, 6  Jun.

The bird, the beste, the fisch eke in the see, They lyve in fredome, euerich in his kynd, And I, a man, and lakkith libertee!

-James I
c.1435  The Kingis Quair, stanza 27.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

-Jerrold, Douglas William
Of  Australia. The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold (published1859),'A Land of Plenty'.

   To Sorrow, I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind.

-Keats,John
  Endymion, bk.4, l.173^8.

Inside every banker, even the governor of the Bank of England, there lies a gambling streak. In me, they recognise one of their own kind.

-Kristol, Irving
Quoted in Michael Wilding and Pamela Wilcox  Apple Sauce (1982).

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature†but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

-Lamb, Charles
  Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

All thenightthefrogsgo chuckle, all theday thebirdsare singing In the pond beside the meadow, by the roadway poplar- lined, In the field between the trenches are a million blossoms springing 'Twixt the grass of silver bayonets where the lines of battle wind Where man has manned thetrenches for the maiming of his kind.

-MacGill, Patrick
  Soldier Songs,'The Trench'.

When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must show him on the roadside when you meet him; you must show him in the streets of the town; you must show him in the fair and the market place; and even in the house of worship, by leaving him severely aloneöby putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating himfromhiskindasif hewerea leperofold.You must show himyourdetestationofthe crimesthat hehas committed.

-Parnell, Charles Stewart
  Speech that established the practice of boycotting, Ennis, 19 Sep.

Does it matter?ölosing your sight?† There's such splendid work for the blind; And people will always be kind As you sit on the terrace remembering And turning your face to the light.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Does It Matter'.

Far may be sought Erst that ye can find So courteous, so kind, As Merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.

-Skelton,John
  The Garland of Laurel,'To Mistress Margaret Hussey'.

   It is better to fight for the good, than to rail at the ill; I have felt with my native land, I am one with my kind, I embrace the purpose of God, and the doom assigned.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.3, sect.6, stanza 5, l.57^9.

Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a'   l'espe'  ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e¤  chappe me"  me a'   l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.

-Crayencour
Me¤  moires d'Hadrien.