Urbane Quotes
- San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world - one of the really urbane communities in the United States - one… — Duke Ellington
- For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro',… — Nathan Huggins
- Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out… — Phyllis McGinley
- You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big… — Karen MacNeil
- I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting. — Mireille Enos
- The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but… — James Fenton
- The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all… — Herman Melville
- My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head… — Rosecrans Baldwin