Tenderness Quotes · Page 4

“Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.”

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“lean in to kiss me in all the places where the ache is the most special.”

— Sanober Khan

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

— Henry Fielding

In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness.

— Catherine Ingram

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

— Allan Gurganus

“…—We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…”

— Jane Austen

Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Aaron Eckhart

“Followers of Christ will not exhibit characteristics that are cheap and selfish, but in word, spirit, and action they will reveal the…

— Ellen G. White

I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy…

— Andrea Bocelli

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

— George Eliot

“Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.

— Shae-Lynn Bourne

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

— Ethel Waters

Simply having you here is the best Christmas present I could ever have. Thank you for making this year so wonderful and…

— Axiz

“Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura. [It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]”

— Che Guevara

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual…

— Susanna Wesley

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations,…

— Dan Chaon

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a…

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a…

— Carlos Santana

Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection…

— Lynda Carter

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed…

— David Levithan

“Lord Thornbeck lifted her onto the saddle. He looked her in the eye, and her breath stilled in her chest. There was…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Hunter?” She grasped his shoulders for support, digging her nails into his flesh. “Hunter?” “I am here. Be easy.” He slid a…

— Catherine Anderson

“Her's what I tell myself now. That it's vital to learn how to make the best of things. That there is no…

— Katherine Center

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a…

— Anonymous

The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter.…

— Zig Ziglar

“So, of course Rose decided this would be a good time to discuss such matters. “I would also like to know if…

— Kathryn Smith

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more…

— William Wordsworth

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels…

— David Hume

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

— Robert Bly

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

— Carolyn Forche

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

— Saint Francis de Sales

We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

— Mother Teresa

A man, without at least a pinch of femininity, will never be a gentleman.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

If you put a little bit of my love in your heart, every tenderness will have a meaning.

— Anonymous

What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness

— Sylvia Plath