24 Quotes on Tenderness

• Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

  Author: Henny Youngman

• I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  Author: Sally Struthers

• Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

  Author: Anne Seward

• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  Author: Salman Rushdie

• Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

  Author: Frederick Robertson

• Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

  Author: Thomas Quincey

• When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

  Author: Louis Pasteur

• A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

  Author: Rollo May

• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

  Author: Alfred Hitchcock

• There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

  Author: Robert Hass

• Tenderness is a virtue.

  Author: Oliver Goldsmith

• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.

  Author: Henry Fielding

• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  Author: George Eliot

• When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

  Author: George Eliot

• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

  Author: George Eliot

• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  Author: Aaron Eckhart

• Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Author: Marlene Dietrich

• There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

  Author: Jane Austen

• The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

  Author: Pedro Almodovar

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