Gentility Quote by Joe Orton Download Open image “The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.” — Joe Orton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentility Nature Oscars States Welfare Welfare state Wilde
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest,… — Martin Durkin Copy Share Image
“But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em." Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“Time, fertile in resources, more inventive and more charitable than we think, possesses a remarkable capacity to help us out, to afford us at… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It has not… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Our current state of affairs reduces to poverty people born for better things.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad… — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter… — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,.… — Ovadia Yosef Copy Share Image
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed that woman's road to gentility would lie through… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two… — Fiona Thrust Copy Share Image
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility. — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
