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- 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… — 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… — Frederick Forsyth
- The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality… — 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… — Willie Mays
- She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from… — 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… — Terry Pratchett
- Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By… — Wallace Stegner
- 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