Blow Quote by Willa Cather

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the…

— Margaret Deland

Tenderness is the infancy of love.

— Antoine Rivarol

“A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year…

— Patrick Chamoiseau

“But the same spirits of analogy will authorise me to assert that ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but…

— Jane Austen

“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

“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his.…

— Sandra Lee Bartky

Tenderness is the repose of Passion.

— Anonymous

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Material handouts are a poor substitute for love and understanding. People don’t need more things—they need more tenderness”

— John C. Maxwell

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

— Joseph Joubert

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they…

— Alphonse de Lamartine