#gentle

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#come #down #drink #gentlemen #hope

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#gentleman #however #length #life #live

I'm a gentleman. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#i

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. ↗

— Fisher Ames

#away #eggs #gentleman #hen #her

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. ↗

— Paul Anka

#country #gentler #good #lends #pace

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#better #bring #child #fear #fitter

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained? ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#attained #been #civil #dignity #gentlemen

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. ↗

— James Lind

#day #different #different times #drank #each