Gentleness

Gentleness is an aspect of kindness, the characteristic of being tender and amiable, and having a considerate or kindly disposition.

Quotes

 * ternura, la palabra pequeña, familiar/que cabía en mi boca.
 * tenderness, the small familiar word/that fits exactly in my mouth.
 * The selected poems of Rosario Castellanos (1989)


 * Gentleness, as opposed to an irascible temper, greatly contributes to the tranquility and happiness of life, by preserving the mind from perturbation, and arming it against the assaults of calumny and malice.
 * Epicurus, as quoted in Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers (Half-Hours with the Freethinkers) by Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts (1877)

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 311.


 * Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.
 * Gentle in manner, firm in reality.
 * Claudio Acquaviva, Industriæ ad Curandos Animæ Morbos.


 * He is gentil that doth gentil dedis.
 * Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, The Wyf of Bathes Tale, line 6,695.


 * Peragit tranquilla potestas Quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget Imperiosa quies.
 * Power can do by gentleness that which violence fails to accomplish; and calmness best enforces the imperial mandate.
 * Claudianus, De Consulatu Mallii Theodori Panegyris, CCXXXIX.


 * La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine.
 * Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
 * Pierre Corneille, Héraclius, I, 1.


 * The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.
 * Homer, The Iliad, Book XVII, line 756. Pope's translation.


 * Plus fait douceur que violence.
 * Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
 * Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, VI, 3.


 * At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.
 * The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
 * Ovid, Ars Amatoria, II. 149.


 * Gentle to others, to himself severe.
 * Samuel Rogers, Voyage of Columbus, Canto VI.


 * What would you have? your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.
 * William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 102.


 * Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.
 * William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 7, line 113.


 * They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act IV, scene 2, line 171.


 * Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
 * William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act IV, scene 2, line 111.