gentleness Quotes

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.