Genteel Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. — Rosemary Mahoney
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.… — Henry Fielding
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… — George Washington
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may… — Sinclair Lewis
The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel… — Barbara Roberts
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family… — Murray Kempton
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as… — James Branch Cabell
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. — Oliver Goldsmith
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that it is not genteel comedy even; that… — Henry James, Sr.
But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized. — Shane Koyczan
The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear… — Hal Porter
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of… — David Brooks
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you. — Burgess Meredith
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have… — Amy Vanderbilt
A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as… — Vincent Piazza
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the… — Leslie Fiedler
There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to… — William Winwood Reade
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way. — Geoffrey Gray

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