Speak softly, but carry a big stick.

Sometimes, I Smile Back To Myself, And, Speaks Softly, Hope Those Day's Would Be Back Again...

— Nikhil Andy

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

— Emily Dickinson

“I know,” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.”

— Ashlyn Kane

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on…

— Diana Gabaldon

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

— Hilda Conkling

Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

— Anonymous

“I love you, too," I whispered so softly I didn't know if he'd heard me. "Ti amo tanto, Sebastian, sempre e per sempre.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

“I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago.…

— Sara Shepard

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Speak to meat eaters the way you would speak to a wild animal: softly and without any sudden movements.”

— Carol J. Adams

“Jane!" cried he softly, moving closer. "All these long months that we have been apart, even believing it to be impossible, it is of…

— Syrie James

“My head rested on his shoulder, my heart rested entirely in his hands And in a whisper, my words escaped: "I love you." He…

— Ree Drummond

“You still do not quite understand, do you?" she said softly. "I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in…

— Mary Balogh

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

— Eugene Ormandy

“Don't move, Sassenach," Jamie's voice came softly, next to me. "Just for a moment, mo duinne--be still." I obligingly froze, until he touched me…

— Diana Gabaldon