Gentle Quotes · Page 15

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

— Walter Scott

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

— Homer

Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

— Dolly Parton

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

— James Purefoy

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

— Elbert Hubbard

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

— Henri Nouwen

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss…

— Charlotte Bronte

Certainly, if more people were smoking instead of drinking, people don’t get mean on weed, don’t beat up their wives on weed,…

— Susan Sarandon

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of…

— Chris Abani

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through…

— Oscar Wilde

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all…

— Judy Parfitt

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen…

— William Butler Yeats

Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…

— William Hazlitt

“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every…

— Charles Dickens

The happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief,…

— J.R. Miller

“Juliette-Julietter, love, wake up-wake up" ... Warner's hands cup my face. The warmth of his skin helps calm me somehow, and I…

— Tahereh Mafi

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:…

— E. F. Schumacher

I'm sketching ideas. They're a completely different way of working than working with editors at a magazine where you're always working with…

— Max Vadukul

Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for…

— Kathy Freston

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

— Lord Chesterfield

People believe Mahesh does what I ask him to. That's not true. He may look shy and gentle, but he knows his…

— Namrata Shirodkar

The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.

— Samuel Hahnemann

“O, gentle lady, do not put me to’t,/ For I am nothing, if not critical.”

— William Shakespeare

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I tried to gentle it. “Are you two pissing on each other for my friendship? I don’t deal with that. You both…

— Tijan

You're never going to be gentle enough with the person who is your guest.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

“Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.”

— Roberto Hogue

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Like in a graceful dance, in their interactions, there had never been any stifling, awkward, or rough movements—just light, fleeting touches.”

— Torres and Firsht

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

— Benedict of Nursia

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen…

— John Ruskin

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

— Mercedes McCambridge

“Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.”

— Anonymous

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's…

— Emma Forrest

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

— Daniel Defoe