Evocative Quote by Rosanne Cash

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

— Mary Russell Mitford

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we…

— 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…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

— Georgia Harkness

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

“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

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

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell