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Gentle Quotes

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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Dante Alighieri

A delicate consideration often blossoms within me, since it connotes you.
Authors on Gentle Quotes: George Herbert William Shakespeare Edmund Spenser Dante Alighieri Laozi Sophocles Mark Twain Samuel Rogers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lucretius John Cheever Adam Rex Keiko Fukuda Richard Dawkins Rasheed Ogunlaru Max Ehrmann Alexander Pope Khalil Gibran Peter Ustinov Ovid Victor Hugo John Calvin Charles Spurgeon Leonora Speyer Madeleine L'Engle William Wordsworth John Lancaster Spalding Shane Claiborne Ray Bradbury Matthew Henry Alice Munro Kid Cudi Petra Kelly
2.
Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.
Willie Nelson

Exercise caution with your utterances - you can't unsay them.
3.
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
Hozier

4.
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
William Wordsworth

5.
The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
Matthew Henry

6.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine the Great

7.
I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.
Ann Coulter

8.
Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it
Buck Brannaman

9.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
Will Durant

10.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
Peter Ustinov

11.
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Marlene Dietrich

12.
It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
Shane Claiborne

13.
Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love
Kid Cudi

14.
Be Strong, Gentle and Beautiful, in Mind, Body and Spirit.
Keiko Fukuda

15.
War is cruelty,
and none can make it gentle.
Gilbert Parker

16.
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
Sophocles

17.
Take the gentle path.
George Herbert

18.
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

19.
I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
Lee Pace

20.
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo

21.
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
Leo Buscaglia

22.
I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.
T. S. Eliot

23.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
Max Ehrmann

24.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
Mark Twain

25.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge

26.
I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.
Natasha Bedingfield

27.
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
Vera Nazarian

28.
Be gentle with everything in your life.
Bryan Kest

29.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
Alexander Pope

30.
There is great force hidden in a sweet command.
George Herbert

31.
Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.
Khalil Gibran

32.
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
Teresa Medeiros

33.
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
Mark Twain

34.
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
Ovid

35.
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.
John Calvin

36.
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
Samuel Rogers

37.
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
Laozi

38.
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
William Shakespeare

39.
Gentle to others, to himself severe.
Samuel Rogers

40.
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
Ralph Cudworth

41.
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson

42.
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
Geoffrey Chaucer

43.
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.
Richard Dawkins

44.
A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

45.
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have
Louise Hay

46.
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.
Kenneth Patchen

47.
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
Dante Alighieri

48.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
William Shakespeare

49.
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
Raymond Chandler

50.
There are men too gentle to live among wolves.
James Kavanaugh