Top 35 Quotes About Gentility
#1. The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
Georgia Harkness
#2. She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.
Patrick White
#3. For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
E. M. Forster
#4. I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
George Bernard Shaw
#5. 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?
John Barth
#6. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
Frederick Forsyth
#8. Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.
Jonny Steinberg
#9. 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.
William Shenstone
#10. In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
Al Alvarez
#11. There we were, filled with pure animal need, as he pinned me to the wooden table, and cruelly whipped my naked bottom; the two of us sweaty and panting, me screaming, him grunting, our primal sexual natures overprinting the tea room's pretence at gentility, and refinement.
Fiona Thrust
#12. Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
William Hazlitt
#13. I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.
Amitav Ghosh
#14. the ancient saying that force outdoes inferiors while gentility outdoes superiors.
Liezi
#15. Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her name as far as she can?) must from situation be at this time the intimatre friend and confidante of her sister.
Jane Austen
#16. 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.
Willie Mays
#17. The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.
Joe Orton
#20. When you meet dishonest people, move them with sincerity. When you meet violent people, affect them with gentility. When you meet warped people, inspire them with justice. Then the whole world enters your forge.
Zicheng Hong
#21. 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.
Emily James Smith Putnam
#22. To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell Mitford
#23. When you want to talk about honor, they want to talk about money. When you want to talk about money, they want to talk about gentility. They either get the notion of honor or they don't. And if they don't, you probably shouldn't be fucking with them.
Liam Rector
#24. He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#25. Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.
Michelangelo
#26. I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Sid Bernstein
#27. Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.
Pat Conroy
#28. Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi
#29. 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.
Murray Kempton
#30. Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.
Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
#31. 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.
Terry Pratchett
#33. It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.
Sara Sheridan
#34. There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
H. Allen Smith
#35. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Charles Dickens
