Gentle Quotes - page 13

My father, William C. Boulding, was a working plumber in business for himself. At the back of the house was the yard, a corrugated iron shed full of pipes, wrenches, and blow torches, and other mysterious and rather frightening apparatus. He had two faithful employees, Billy Fox, who was moody and regarded as a little queer, and Billy Sankey, who was short and cheerful. They and my father always smelled strongly of some kind of grease. My father was a gentle man. I never I never heard his voice raised in anger. He had had a very hard childhood. His father died soon after he was born; his mother married again, a man known in the family legends as "Pa Hardacre," about whom endless stories were told. He was a bigamist. He drove my father out of the house at the age of twelve to earn his own living on the streets of Liverpool. He constantly mistreated my half-aunts, Ethel and Rosie. He died before I was born, but my mother's accounts of him sounded like something out of Dickens. (Kenneth Boulding)
God is not so cruel as old men tell us: nor will God cut off the gentle soul of a man for loving a woman or a girl. Three things are loved by the whole world: women, fine weather, and good health, and girls are the fairest flower in Heaven next to God Himself. View quote
Dafydd ap Gwilym
I am twisted with passion – plague on all the girls of the parish! since I suffered from trysts which went amiss, and could never win a single one of them, neither gentle hopeful maid, nor little lass, nor hag, nor wife. View quote
Dafydd ap Gwilym
Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. View quote
Victor Hugo
"Vanitas vanitatum" has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair. View quote
Frederick Locker-Lampson
Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming, Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer. View quote
George Linley
Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Oh, Theo, why should I change - I used to be very passive and very gentle and quiet - I'm that no longer, but then I'm no longer a child either now - sometimes I feel my own man. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Lo, the book I hold here, In the city cold here ! I hold it with a gentle hand and love it as I may; Lo, the weary moments! Lo, the icy comments! And lo, false Fortune's knife of gold swift-lifted up to slay! Has the strife no ending? Has the song no meaning? Linger I, idle as of old, while men are reaping or gleaning? (Robert Williams Buchanan)
From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born. View quote
Michelangelo
I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which we're obliged to hiss, and spit, and sputter all. View quote
Lord Byron
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours. View quote
Charles Dickens
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. View quote
Gilbert Parker
All young gentle dreams drowning In life's grief Can you hang on to me? View quote
Kate Bush
Sweet and gentle and sensitive man With an obsessive nature and deep fascination For numbers And a complete infatuation with the calculation Of π. View quote
Kate Bush
Steadfast of thought, Well made, well wrought, Far may be sought, Ere that ye can find So courteous, so kind As merry Margaret, This midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower. View quote
John Skelton
Gentle Paul, laie doune thy sweard For Peter of Westminster hath shaven thy beard. View quote
John Skelton
Like to a leafless tree, Dry river bed, or house in pathless waste, Is gentle blood that hath no courtesy. View quote
Francesco Berni
But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. (Homer)
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now. View quote
James Joyce
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night; Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. View quote
William Shakespeare
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It's sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it's actually very rough when you experience it. View quote
William Shakespeare