Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love. — Shae-Lynn Bourne Copy Share Image
“The season, the scene, the air, were all favourable to tenderness and sentiment.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“You have no tenderness, nothing but truth, and so you judge unjustly.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit — McCallister Dodds Copy Share Image
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done -… — Annette Messager Copy Share Image
Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
“(...) I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to… — Robert McLiam Wilson Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from… — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Copy Share Image
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his… — Rachel A. Marks Copy Share Image
“Can I touch you?” His lashes closed, resting on the tops of his tanned, sculpted cheeks as his smile grew broad. “You… — Linda Kage Copy Share Image
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“But then I see the way he is looking at me, with such tenderness, and I stop.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
![“[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.” quote by Annette Messager](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de3/annette-messager-44479_acts-of-love_love-can-be-found-in-making-little-dress_1187354.jpg)
![“[It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.” quote by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/266/dinah-maria-mulock-craik-54372_first-time_it-was-the-first-time-in-my-life-i-ever_1963424.jpg)
![“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them…” quote by John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6c/john-locke-814_admitting_let-the-awe-the-teacher-has-upon-childre_1418826.jpg)
