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- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — 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… — Henry Fielding
- Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is… — George Washington
- There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however… — Sinclair Lewis
- The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more… — Unknown Author
- By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton
- I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell