Gentle Quotes

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

Heart, Easy, Thread

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Alan Alda

Good, Strong, Woman

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

Pain, Born, Delight

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

Eyes, Gentleman, Present

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
Gilbert Parker

War, Cruelty, None

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
Charles Lamb

Thoughts, Inspires, Asparagus

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

Best, Keep, High

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
David Herbert Lawrence

Women, Men, Another

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron

Forward, Yourself, Remember

My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Paul Ryan

Life, Dad, Lost

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.
Robert Orben

Humor, Mean, Remember

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

Art, Making, Himself

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
Barbara Bush

Home, Hard, Working

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston

Lovable, Except, Cruelty

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
George Herbert

God, Path, Away

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir

Humor, Solitude, Jokes

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford

Art, Pretending, Modesty

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
George Herbert

Great, Force, Hidden

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

Daily, Enjoyment, Air

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier

Give, Friends, Enough

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

Spiritual, Two, Matter

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.
Henry Williamson

Father, Thought, Friends

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks

Good, Strong, Someone

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.
Richard O'Brien

Around, Grateful, Lovely

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
Bob Keeshan

Life, Good, Strength

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great

Business, May, Line

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
Kent Nerburn

Yourself, Children, Remember

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
Michael Sheen

Angry, Child, Parent

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl

Heart, Country, Nobody

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