It's hard to do it because you gotta look people in the eye and tell 'em they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is ladies and gentlemen. In this country you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. Period.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Men and women should stay apart till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Lord give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

War is cruelty and none can make it gentle.

Gentlemen I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training you know.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions do not try to break them but bend them with gentleness and time.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

My father also happened to be an intellectual as learned literate informed and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually he was my wise and gentle teacher.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity and whatever lesson you work him and never take above half his strength nor ride him till he is weary but a little at a time and often.

Above all it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East but strength.

It requires more strength to be gentle so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness nothing so gentle as real strength.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

A gentle word a kind look a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Ladies and gentlemen it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia and I'm proud of them.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

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

A tramp a gentleman a poet a dreamer a lonely fellow always hopeful of romance and adventure.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.