(176 quotes found)
“It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.”
Lawrence Durrell
“Bright and fierce and fickle is the South,/ And dark and true and tender is the North.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? / The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.”
Bible
“The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.”
Charles Simeon
“Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.”
“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”
Ambrose Bierce
“One s slaves as one s shadow, one s daughter as the highest object of tenderness, hence if one is offended by ,any one of these, one must bear it without resentment.”
Guru Nanak
“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.”
Georges Bernanos
“An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.”
John Ruskin
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
