Always be a little kinder than necessary.
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!
As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.
The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
I do play nice guys. I really do.
Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.
My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
Keep in mind, I'm not allowed to be tough. I'm tamed.
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
Men say, kinde will creepe where it may not goe.
The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.
