#gentle

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#club #confident #gentleman #i #just

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#after #carried #declaration #destroyed #disregarded

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#alert #banish #cats #complaisance #discriminating

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

#always #being #gentleman #infallible #know

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#gentle #make #none #war

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning. ↗

— Howard Cosell

#burning #gentleman #ladies

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#courtesy #gentleman #mark #much

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

— Leo Rosten

#cruel #expected #gentleness #i #learned

In between every action and reaction, there is a space. Usually the space is extremely small because we react so quickly, but take notice of that space and expand it. Be aware in that space that you have a choice to make. You can choose how to respond, and choose wisely, because the next step you take will teach your child how to handle anger and could either strengthen or damage your relationship. ↗

— Rebecca Eanes

#children #emotional-regulation #emotions #gentle-parenting #parenting

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#beauty #clichés #distinction #empowerment #gender