Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom;… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People… — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness,… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ...… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
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