Gentility Quotes
Gentility Quote of the day
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.
Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.
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 doing nothing at all.
