'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

- Aaron Eckhart

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

- Anna Seward

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

- Ethel Waters

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

- George Eliot

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

- Ingrid Bergman

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

- Marlene Dietrich

Tenderness is a virtue.

- Oliver Goldsmith