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Quotes About Gentle

My friends will tell you that I'm a very mild person.
~ Eve Arden
Both my parents were mild, gentle people.
~ Graeme Souness
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
~ Charles Farrar Browne
Graye was handsome, frank, and gentle. He had a quality of thought which, exercised on homeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; on abstractions, poetry. Being, as a rule, broadcast, it was all three. Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.
~ Thomas Hardy
They were such a sweet and gentle couple. "Can we make you a cup of tea?" Nothing that you think about "junkies." It was all very civilized. Sometimes I'd go to the cottage and—because they were mainliners—say, "Penny, is Steve still alive?" "I think so, darling. Anyway, have a cup of tea and then we'll wake him up.
~ Keith Richards
She was gentle and pale, and her eyes seemed always to dream of something I didn't understand.
~ Kenji Miyazawa
Be ever courteous should the case allow--sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire.
~ burton robert
The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.
~ Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
some accuse hospice and palliative care clinicians of promoting a "culture of death" when we allow dying people to leave this life gently, without subjecting them to CPR or mechanical ventilation or dialysis or medical nutrition.
~ Ira Byock
Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.
~ Iris Murdoch
el amable arte de actuar solapadamente.
~ Isaac Asimov
Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love.
~ Isabel Allende
Zacharie did not learn of the sorrow his wife was living becasue she was careful to hide it. Tete kept that first love, the stromngest in her life, a secret. She mentioned it only rarely because she could not offer Zacharie a passion of the same intensity; the relationship they shared was genntle and free of urgency.
~ Isabel Allende
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler, slower pace - it lends perspective.
~ Paul Anka
His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
~ William Shakespeare
Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elvis Presley was the sweetest, most humble and nicest man you'd want to know.
~ Muhammad Ali
Cool," said Alex, after he hit his croquet ball through the wicket. "Oh, it feels a little warm to me," replied Darlene, gently reminding Alex to have a nineteenth-century reaction next time he made a good shot.
~ Susan E. Goodman
Know, know, know your boat gently down the stream. What boat? Nobody's talking about boats.
~ Susan Vaught
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
~ D. H. Lawrence
...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.
~ Sanober Khan