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
George Eliot 
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William James 
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Pedro Almodovar 
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Aaron Eckhart 
Edward Gibbon 
Henny Youngman All Tenderness Quotes
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 
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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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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May
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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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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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