Tenderness Quotes

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. (Marlene Dietrich)
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. View quote
Henny Youngman
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. View quote
George Eliot
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an 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? View quote
Sally Struthers
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. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. View quote
Jane Austen
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. View quote
Germaine Greer
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. View quote
George Eliot
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. View quote
Marlene Dietrich
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. (Louis Pasteur)
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. View quote
Victor Hugo
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Tenderness is the rest of passion. View quote
Joseph Joubert
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. View quote
Che Guevara
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. View quote
Rollo May
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness. View quote
Rollo May
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years! (Tennessee Williams)
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. View quote
Maya Angelou
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. View quote
Wilfred Owen
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear. View quote
Dinah Craik