Gentle Quotes
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The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way.
Samuel Hahnemann
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Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
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Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.
Brenda Peterson
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
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From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!
William Shakespeare
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She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me.
Charlie Walker
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.
Rumi
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A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
William Shakespeare
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Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
William Somervile
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
Geoffrey Gorer
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
Kathleen Norris
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To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.
Sophocles
