Gentle Quotes

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. (Helen Rowland)
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. View quote
Oliver Herford
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. View quote
Joseph Addison
What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up? View quote
Robert Southey
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. View quote
Julia Cameron
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. View quote
C. S. Lewis
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. (Chris Abani)
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. View quote
John Ruskin
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. View quote
Dylan Thomas
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly He took her with a sigh. View quote
William Blake
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth. View quote
William Wordsworth
O Reader had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader you would find A tale in everything. View quote
William Wordsworth
His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man. (William Shakespeare)
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. View quote
Robert Orben
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. View quote
Anne Frank
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so. View quote
Richard O'Brien