Tender

Famous quotes containing the word tender:

“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

“This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.”
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)