If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

- Alan Rickman

Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.

- Arundhati Roy

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

- Bayard Taylor

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

- D. H. Lawrence

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

- Frank Perdue

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

- Herschel Walker

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

- Ida Lupino

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

- Joni Mitchell

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

- Julia Margaret Cameron

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

- John Sheffield

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

- Marcel Proust

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

- Rosamund Pike

I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their story looms before you every day, in every sentence.

- Rick Bass

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

- Ugo Betti

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

- Vera Farmiga