Gentleness
The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
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Gentleness Quotations
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
Coco Chanel
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
Robert Mondavi
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales
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
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
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Pierre Corneille
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
Gentleness Translations
gentleness in Dutch is mildheid
gentleness in Italian is cortesia
gentleness in Latin is lenitas lenitudo
gentleness in Spanish is apacibilidad
gentleness in Swedish is mildhet, blidhet
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