Pastoral Resources

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.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

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

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

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

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

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

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Tenderness is a virtue.

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.

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

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

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

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

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

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

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

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.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.