I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
Aaron Eckhart

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Ugo Betti

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
Marcel Proust

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
Frank Perdue

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
George Wald

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
Ruth Graham

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Paul Harris

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
Mary Richards

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Isabelle Adjani

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music.
Susannah McCorkle

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
William Dunbar

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
Christian Nestell Bovee

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
Kate Chopin

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Christina Rossetti