The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.

- Cesare Beccaria

'O sleep, O gentle sleep,' I thought gratefully, 'Nature's soft nurse!'

- Elizabeth Kenny

People love gentle larceny.

- Dan Aykroyd

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

- Danny Meyer

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.

- Charles Farrar Browne

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

- China Machado

The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

- Conrad Black

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

- Chris LeDoux

I am actually a very gentle person.

- Charlie Trotter

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

- Charles Lamb

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

- Alexander Pope

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

- Catherine the Great

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.

- Carl Sandburg

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

- C. S. Lewis

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

- Bob Keeshan

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

- Boy George

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

- Benjamin Franklin

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

- Anjelica Huston

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

- Alvin Ailey

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

- Anne Frank