Gentle Quotes

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Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. — Unknown Author
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow… — Vladimir Nabokov
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. — Albert Camus
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can… — W. P. Kinsella
Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you… — Charlotte Bronte
She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy,… — Mark Twain
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There should be some… — Dorothy Day
Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle… — P.G. Wodehouse
It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes guts to be gentle and kind — Steven Morrissey
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. — E F Schumacher
To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo… — Brigham Young
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. — Anne Frank
He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly… — Morgan Llywelyn
The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender… — Tana French
...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like… — Charles Bukowski
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others… — Kent Nerburn
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good… — Dylan Thomas
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so… — William Saroyan

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