Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

I have respect for Chisora as a fighter but not as a human. He set a bad example for boxing and all fighters. He came from Great Britain, but he is not a gentleman.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.