(176 quotes found)
“A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Tenderness is the repose of Passion”
Joseph Joubert
“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.”
George Eliot
“Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.”
H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
“The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts”
Henry Fielding
“Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.”
Rollo May
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
Marie Louise De La Ramee
“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
John Lubbock
“[Her] love and tenderness gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.”
Eugene O'Neill