Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and…

“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought…

— Jane Austen

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of…

— William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

— William Hazlitt

Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.

— William Hazlitt

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as…

— S. J. Perelman

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

— Georgia Harkness

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,.…

— Ovadia Yosef

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

— John Ciardi

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through…

— Emily James Smith Putnam

“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two…

— Fiona Thrust