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Gentleness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

He is gentil that doth gentil dedis. S.— CHAUCER — Canterbury Tales. The Wyf of Bathes. Tale. L. 6695.

The mildest manners and the gentlest heart.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. 17. L. 756.

Pope's trans. Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.— Shakespeare — As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 113.

They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 171.

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:— Shakespeare — Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 111.

What would you have? your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.— Shakespeare — X. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 102.

Let mildness ever attend thy tongue.— THEOGIUS — Maxims. L. 368.

Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re. Gentle in manner, firm in reality.— AQUAVIVA — Industriæ ad Curandos

Animæ Morbos. Peragit tranquilla potestas Quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget Imperiosa quies. Power can do by gentleness that which violence fails to accomplish; and calmness best enforces the imperial mandate.— CLAUDIANUS — De Consulatu Mallii Theo-

dori Panegyris. CCXXXIX.