1.
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.
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 highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.
Ann Coulter
7.
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
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.
It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.
Shane Claiborne
12.
Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love
Kid Cudi
13.
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Marlene Dietrich
14.
Be Strong, Gentle and Beautiful, in Mind, Body and Spirit.
Keiko Fukuda
17.
I’m a pretty gentle person so I don’t really have much of a thing of being a badass.
Lee Pace
18.
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
Sophocles
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.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Mercedes McCambridge
24.
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
25.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
Max Ehrmann
26.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
Mark Twain
27.
Be gentle with everything in your life.
Bryan Kest
28.
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
Vera Nazarian
29.
Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.
Khalil Gibran
33.
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
34.
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have
Louise Hay
35.
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
37.
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell
Teresa Medeiros
38.
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
Mark Twain
39.
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
[Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]
Ovid
40.
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
41.
Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.
Samuel Rogers
42.
Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
Laozi
45.
True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.
Ralph Cudworth
46.
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson
47.
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary Wollstonecraft
49.
I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
Joss Whedon
50.
Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.
Dolly Parton