Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Meir Kahane
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
Donald G. Mitchell
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Phaedrus
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Robert Mondavi
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
Roger Ascham
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
Meredith Monk
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.
John Strachan
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
Jennifer Granholm
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
Han Suyin
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
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