TENDERNESS

Related Subjects: Affection, Care, Compassion, Friendship, Gentleness, Kissing, Love, Mercy

1. When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.—GEORGE ELIOT
   

2. A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel for the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.—FIELDING
   

3. Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.—GOLDSMITH
   

4. Tenderness is the repose of passion.—JOUBERT, Pensees
   

5. When thus the heart is in a vein
   Of tender thought, the simplest strain
   Can touch it with peculiar power.—THOMAS MOORE, Evenings in Greece
   

6. Tenderness is the repose of love.—ANTOINE DE RIVAROL