Accepting Quote by Victor Hugo

Tenderness is the repose of Passion.

— Anonymous

“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

— Joseph Joubert

“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her…

— Cecilia Grant

“Sometimes things acquire a tenderness, a monstrous tenderness we don’t expect from them.”

— Herta Müller

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid…

— Janet Fitch

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

— Anonymous

“It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men’s dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which…

— George Eliot

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

— William Godwin

“He only had time to feel all the tenderness he had ever felt for her surge up in one infinitely concentrated instant - and…

— Lev Grossman

“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who had been…

— Wendell Berry