Gentle Quotes - Page 38

• Careless of books, yet having felt the power
  Of Nature, by the gentle agency
  Of natural objects, led me on to feel
  For passions that were not my own, and think
  (At random and imperfectly indeed)
  On man, the heart of man, and human life.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Book, Passion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

  Frances Wright

  War, Evil, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

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• Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an eighteenth-century chocolate house.

  Wallace Shawn

  Hands, House, Awkward

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  Josh Turner

  Fans, Giants

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• I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

  Joss Whedon

  Men

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Henry Williamson

  Friends, Father, Flower

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• A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Would Be, Denied

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.343, Dell

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• I thought you said that after this many years nothing should embarrass him?" Leigh said with gentle amusement. Lucian grunted. "I guess he's more sensitive than I thought." "I am NOT sensitive," Cale snapped, irritated by the very suggestion. "It's probably his mother's fault," Lucian said, ignoring him. "Martine named him after Caliope, the muse of poetry. Between that and his father dying when he was only fifty, he's probably suffered under Martine's namby-pamby influence.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Father, Years

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• Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

  Robert Walser

  Sadness, Missing, Feelings

  Robert Walser (1990). “Masquerade and other stories”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sexy, Way

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• The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Knights

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• He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Soul, Sensitive, Temper

  Bohumil Hrabal (2007). “I Served the King of England (New Directions Classic)”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Children, Rules To Live By

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.78, Bantam

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• Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Night, Men

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• In my time,” he said, “they believed in witches. Are you a witch, Honor, that you make me say these things to you?” Causing him to rip open wounds that had stayed safely scabbed over for so long that, most of the time, he managed to forget they existed. Her hands, so very, very gentle, continued to hold his face as she tugged him down until their foreheads touched. “I’m no witch, Dmitri. If I was, I’d know how to fix you.

  Nalini Singh

  Rip, Hands, Long

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.1122, Penguin

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• A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Silly, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.270, Delphi Classics

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• He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Ocean, Humility

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

  Anais Nin

  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

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• He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Real, Men, Tenderness

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• How many great ones may remember'd be,
  Which in their days most famously did flourish,
  Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
  But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
  Because the living cared not to cherish
  No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
  Which might their names forever memorize!

  Edmund Spenser

  Pride, Names, Forever

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• Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
  In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
  The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
  To think, without desert of gentle deed
  And noble worth, to be advanced high,
  Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
  Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

  Ovid

  Education, Art, Men

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• Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

  May Sarton

  Earth

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.642, Open Road Media

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