Kindliness and sincerity... and, if you'll forgive me, modesty... mean more to a husband than all the wit and beauty in the world.

O Prophet , say to thy wives ' If you desire the present life and its adornment , come now , I will make you provision , and set you free with kindliness .

O Prophet , say to thy wives ' If you desire the present life and its adornment , come now , I will make you provision , and set you free with kindliness .

O believers , when you marry believing women and then divorce them before you touch them , you have no period to reckon against them so make provision for them , and set them free with kindliness .

The old minister spent most of his life here... quietly building up his parish... sharing the simple life of his neighborhood... and, somehow, imbuing his parishioners... with some of his own kindliness and humanity.

I wanted to show by my marriage that though he was led astray, as I believe by that innate kindliness and courtesy of his which made it so hard for him to rebuff the advances of a woman,

I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.

I do not know whether he was seized with compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited upon the injured man.