A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
George Herbert

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Walter Bagehot

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
Franz Marc

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Douglas MacArthur

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.
Jenifer Lewis

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
Homer

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Frank Howard Clark

Culture makes all men gentle.
Menander

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
Loretta Lynn

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
Garrison Keillor

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
Mary MacLane

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
Helen Rowland

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
Michelangelo