Voice, Soft

Voice, Soft

 
  1. A gentle, circling voice, as a warm hand is gentle circling the wrist —Kaatje Hurlbut
  2. Her voice is a caress which strokes you like fingers —Jules Lemaître

    Lemaître, a critic, was describing actress Sarah Bernhardt’s voice.

  3. His voice died in a frail wistful sigh, like wind through a shutter —William Styron
  4. That beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress —Virginia Woolf
  5. Voice … like a page of music —Pat Conroy
  6. Voice like dark brown velvet —Josephine Tey
  7. Voice like down feathers —William Diehl
  8. Voice … like liquid —Mark Helprin
  9. Voice … like melting honey —Jimmy Sangster
  10. Voice like thick soup —Edith Wharton
  11. Voices as soft and murmurous as wings —George Garrett
  12. Voice soft and cool as a prison yard —Joseph Wambaugh
  13. Voice soft and rich as that of a counselling angel —Henry James, letter to Thomas Sergeant Perry, November 1, 1863
  14. Voice soft as maple syrup running into a glass container —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  15. Voice … soothing as running water —Dorothy Parker
  16. When we spoke, it was softly, like TV cowboys expecting an ambush —Deborah Eisenberg