Top Tenderness Quotes
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward
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?
Sally Struthers
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
George Eliot 
Victor Hugo 
Ethel Waters 
Sally Struthers 
Henry Fielding 
Salman Rushdie All Tenderness Quotes
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot 
56% of people like this quote
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.
Ethel Waters
55% of people like this quote
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward
54% of people like this quote
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?
Sally Struthers
53% of people like this quote
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
53% of people like this quote
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.
Thomas de Quincey
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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.
Henny Youngman
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie
50% of people like this quote
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
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Popular Tenderness Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldVictor HugoH. L. MenckenGeorge EliotWilliam JamesHenny YoungmanHenry FieldingAlfred HitchcockOliver GoldsmithEthel WatersAaron Eckhart
Edward GibbonMarlene DietrichSalman RushdiePedro AlmodovarFrederick William RobertsonRollo MayLouis PasteurThomas de QuinceyAnne SewardRobert HassSally Struthers
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