Tenderness Quotes

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

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Randolph Ray

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

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

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson

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

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

When we exaggerate our friends tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Proverbs

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any dread of ridicule.
Frederick William Robertson

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

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.

Tenderness is a virtue.

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

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

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

Tenderness is the rest of passion.

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

The less tenderness a man has in his nature, the more he requires from others.
Ibn Rahel

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.
Pedro Almodovar







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