gentle tone Quotes

Good words cool more than cold water.

It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

Find a voice in a whisper.

Peeta crouches down on the other side of her and strokes her hair. When he begins to speak in a soft voice, it seems almost nonsensical, but the words aren’t for me. “With my paint box at home, I can make every color imaginable. Pink. As pale as a baby’s skin. Or as deep as rhubarb. Green like spring grass. Blue that shimmers like ice on water.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.

Faire language grates not the tongue.

John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.