Quotes About Gentleness

Hush," he murmured. "There now. Hush." He traced his finger along her jaw. "That is a sweet thought," he whispered. "Except, my lady, I cannot die.

You didn't crush flowers, you didn't squeeze birds, and you didn't break your mum.

Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Your tummy, soft as warm dough. I knead and knead, then bake it with a nap.

You're a marshmallow, Carmelita.

It's easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there's no malignity in it.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Los crueles son los debiles; la bondad sólo puede esperarse de los fuertes.

A soft answer turns away wrath and a gentle tongue is the tree of life, but a snarky Twitter Bible only leads to trouble.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.

The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on; that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every woman's worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.

She had only meant to oppose the too common idea of spirit and gentleness being incompatible with each other.

pero Ana, que poseía una finura de espíritu y una dulzura de carácter que la habrían colocado en el mejor lugar entre gentes de verdadero seso

have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition—and

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen in 'Emma

My impressions of Hank are of a man reaching but unreachable, gentle but capable of sudden wild and dangerous violence, sharply critical of others but equally self-critical, caged and fighting the bars but timid of the light, viciously opposed to external restraint, imposing an iron slavery on himself. His face is a picture of opposites in conflict.

If Meredith tries contradicting him, he laughs indulgently and pets her, stroking her arm or cheek as if she is a mischievous cat.

Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor which means By soft words must love be fostered

His hands still held the windbreaker, his knuckles resting lightly on my breasts. An act of intimate possession more than of sexual aggression.

Ranger raised my bruised and bloody wrist to his mouth and kissed it. "I'm sorry to have to do this to you, but there

He just wanted to stand close to her, touch her hair that was white as glacier milk...

You must find... someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered, someone whose fingers are a poem.