MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS, THE Definition & Meaning

milk of human kindness, the

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Idioms and Phrases

Compassion, sympathy, as in There's no milk of human kindness in that girl—she's totally selfish . This expression was invented by Shakespeare in Macbeth (1:5), where Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals.

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The phial filled with p. 151revenge, malice, spite, hatred, extermination and blood—without the milk of human kindness, the honey of love, water from the crystal fountain, and the tincture of Gethsemane’s garden being added to take away the nauseousness of it—being handed these poor deluding witches and wretches to drink to the last dregs, failed to get rid of social and national grievances.

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I never saw two people suit each other so well as my aunt and wife,—the one so hearty, full of life and spirits, and brimming over with the milk of human kindness,—the other so tranquil, so sensible, and sweet-tempered.

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"The Milk of Human Kindness" "The milk of human kindness" seldom produces cream, but there is only one way by which love may be won or kept.

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