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Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity. - Hannah More The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (II, 149) The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration. - Plutarch Gentle to others, to himself severe. - Samuel Rogers, Voyage of Columbus (canto VI) Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity. - Saint Francis de Sales If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness. - Saint Francis de Sales Let gentleness thy strong enforcement be. - William Shakespeare The gentleness of all the gods go with thee. - William Shakespeare We must be gentle now we are gentlemen. - William Shakespeare What thou wilt, Thou shalt rather enforce it with thy smile, Than hew to't with thy sword. - William Shakespeare Your gentleness shall force, more than your force move us to gentleness. - William Shakespeare But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have looked on better days, If ever been where bells have knolled to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be; In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Orlando at II, vii) What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, vii) They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafed, as the rud'st wind That by the top doth take the mountain pine And make him stoop to th' vale. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Belarius at IV, ii) Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks: He might have chid me so; for, in good faith, I am a child to chiding. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at IV, ii) Sweet speaking oft a currish heart reclaims. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) If we were to form an image of dignity in a man, we should give him wisdom and valor, as being essential to the character of manhood. In the like manner, if you describe a right woman, in a laudable sense, she should have gentle softness, tender fear, and all those parts of life which distinguish, her from the other sex, with some subordination to it, but such an inferiority as makes her still more lovely. - Sir Richard Steele An accent very low In blandishment, but a most silver flow Of subtle-paced counsel in distress, Right to the heart and brain, though undiscried, Winning its way with extreme gentleness Through all the outworks of suspicion's pride. - Lord Alfred Tennyson Gentleness and affability conquer at last. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Let mildness ever attend thy tongue. - Theognis of Megara A crystal river Diaphanous because it travels slowly; Soft is the music that would charm forever; The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. - William Wordsworth Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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