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Quotes About Softness

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
~ Charles V
It is the difference between hitting with a pillow and hitting with a baseball bat.
~ William Brohaugh
the masculine and the feminine? What is one without the other, for how else would the world exist? But each one contains elements of the other too. So use your power, but when others are too strong, be soft; when softness loses vigour, be strong.
~ David Clement-Davies
This [Welsh] language seems to be more particularly adapted for poetry; which, however extraordinary it may seem to some, on account of the multiplicity of gutturals and consonants with which it abounds, has the softness and harmony of the Italian, with the majesty and expression of the Greek.
~ David Lloyd Owen
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
~ John Milton
Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
~ Steven Wright
I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans.
~ Yasmine Surovec, My Pet Human
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.
~ Edith Wharton
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
~ Wayne Dyer
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
~ John James Audubon
I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.
~ Tony Parsons
My heart can feel the softness of a starOnly when the moon stays afar I lay my mind on the pillow of skyWhere sleep dares not ever to pry
~ Munia Khan
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
~ William Shakespeare
Her voice was ever soft,Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
~ William Shakespeare
Even though she was soft and kind, her thoughts were strong like steel.
~ Debasish Mridha
Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Croft M. Pentz
She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She
~ Jean Plaidy
melts into him like a pat of butter on a pan.
~ Jeanine Cummins
It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing.
~ Kellan Lutz
His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
Persimmons are not born soft," "But they are valued for their softness." "Their ripeness.
~ Yiyun Li