Gentry Quotes

11 quotes from 10 authors

Curious about how different people view the upper class? These eleven quick thoughts, each from a separate perspective, provide a snapshot of attitudes toward privilege, tradition, and social standing.

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“An interesting one, this boy who looks like a Shadowhunter and speaks like gentry.”

Cassandra Clare

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“The decisions you make equal the life you live. -Charles Gentry”

Charles Gentry

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“every man on the planet ought to take lessons from Cord Gentry.”

Cora Brent

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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

Jasmine Guinness

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“I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?" "Why don't you work?" "Work?" said young Bingo,…

P.G. Wodehouse

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“I’d known what the Gentry brothers were. A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and…

Cora Brent

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“The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While…

Paul Zimmer

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I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility,…

Julian Fellowes

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“You were in the trunk while they —” This time, Gentry closed his eyes. “Please. I’m going to have flashbacks. I don’t…

Tovaley B. Kysel

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“You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair." Gentry's hand moved over her hip in…

Lisa Kleypas

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“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to…

Alexis de Tocqueville

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