Gentle Quotes

1044 Gentle quotes by 754 unique authors

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as… — Henry Williamson
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… — George Eliot
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A… — William Shakespeare
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle… — Tony Kushner
If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The… — Ernest Hemingway
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, che a nullo… — Dante Alighieri
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer
To the glistening eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy the Valiant. To the great western woods, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant southern… — C.S. Lewis
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 husband—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

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