Tenderness
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
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Tenderness Quotations
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
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
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
Tenderness Translations
tenderness in Dutch is delicaatheid, fijnheid, kiesheid
tenderness in French is tendresse
tenderness in Spanish is terneza, ternura
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