Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no need searching for love, it cannot be found-it happens!

— Itohan Eghide

I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls.

— M.F. Moonzajer

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

— Dominic Riccitello

From that terrible love the soft pure handsgave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.

— Pablo Neruda

I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive.

— Alexandra Bracken

He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time.

— Alex Rosa

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?

— Mike Norton

Is he weeping?' said the one with the softest heart.

— Mary Renault

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

— Criss Jami