Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
I thought I could fight it but the feeling was pulling me down,is this what they call love ?.until I realise that… — Trishmonnie Copy Share Image
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
“You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects your heart with sweet, satiating intensity―a simple gesture… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see.… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us. The disappointments of life, the injustices,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! — Moliere Copy Share Image
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolf S Bourne Copy Share Image
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
