unkind quotes

When I am living in the Midlands That are sodden and unkind.

- (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre Belloc
  'The South Country'.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The Marble Faun, ch.12.

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for a moment venture to hint that it was a matter of taste; but I think I will go as far as this: that if a position is admittedly unkind, uncomfortable, unnecessary, and superfluously useless, although it were as respectableasthe Church of England, the sooner a man is out of it, the better for himself, and all concerned.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
  An InlandVoyage,'At Maubeuge'.