It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

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

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.

Sibyl? Oh, she was so shy and so gentle. There is something of a child about her. Her eyes opened wide in exquisite wonder when I told her what I thought of her performance, and she seemed quite unconscious of her power.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.