Quotes with tenderness

  • Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
  • An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
  • What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Eliot Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Khaled Hosseini All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Rollo May Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Thomas De Quincey Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Lawrence Durrell It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Campbell Brown Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Tenderness is a virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Joseph Joubert Tenderness is the rest of passion.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Samuel Johnson The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Maya Angelou The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Anne Seward Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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