Gentle Quotes

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A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is… — Robert A. Heinlein
From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;… — William Shakespeare
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski… — Terry Pratchett
Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It… — Kathleen Norris
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor.… — Matthew Woodring Stover
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You… — Anne Lamott
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes,"… — Georgette Heyer
The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us… — Oscar Wilde
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May… — Charlotte Bronte
There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I… — Charles Dickens
I dream of a true husbandâ€”a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle… — A.A. Attanasio
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there. — William Wordsworth
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth… — William Shakespeare
There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks… — George Eliot
Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the manner still hurts… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Comfort me from wherever you areâ€“alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo

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