Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and… — Michel de Montaigne
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. — Lawrence Durrell
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;… — Samuel Johnson
There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny. — Jean Genet
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing… — Hedi Slimane
When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood… — Joni Eareckson Tada
Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within… — Criss Jami
When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. — David Jeremiah
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem… — Georges Bernanos
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human… — Pope Francis
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of… — Christopher Bollen
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked… — Ambrose Bierce
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. — Samuel Johnson
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other… — Ingmar Bergman
Tenderness is the infancy of love. — Antoine Rivarol
The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness… — Emily Carr
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it… — Eugene O'Neill

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