(129 quotes found)
“Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.”
Matthew Green
“If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!”
Charles Dickens
“Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.”
Wilfred Owen
“Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”
Wilfred Peterson
“PETA has tried for years to educate her about fur -- at first gently and quietly, and now like this, ... So the next stage is I'll find out where she lives and show up there. And I'll get a hold of her at her premieres.”
Paul McCartney
“Those that do teach young babes, Do it with gentle means and easy tasks; He might have chid me so; for, in good faith, I am a child to chiding”
William Shakespeare
“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.”
Michel de Montaigne
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.”
William S. Burroughs
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength”
St. Francis de Sales
