Gentility Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts… — John Barth
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken — William Hazlitt
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out… — Frederick Forsyth
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than… — Murray Kempton
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost… — Willie Mays
She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature… — Patrick White
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding.… — Terry Pratchett
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are… — Wallace Stegner
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is… — George Bernard Shaw
Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in… — Clive Barker
How you see your self determines how the enemy sees you. Consider yourself as a great person, with power and very influential in the life's… — Sessah-Odai Sadick

Who Wrote These Gentility Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Gentility Quotes as follows: