A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
Thomas de Quincey

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock

Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
Pedro Almodovar

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.
Robert Hass

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James

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

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson