Quotes
Quotes about Tenderness
His love was like the liberal air,--
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.
Jupiter and the Monkey Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.
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.
Tenderness is a virtue.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?
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.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
'Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
A child's hand in yoursâ what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love.
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.
