Acquire Quote by William Shenstone

“I would like to raise them as I was. I would like for them to learn naturally, effortlessly, almost without knowing it, that the…

— Sean B. Carroll

“They still possess virtues which might cause shame to most Christians. No hospitals are needed among them, because there are neither mendicants nor paupers…

— Reuben Gold Thwaites

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioural sequence, and we know he is physically capable…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

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

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

— John Ciardi