Top 52 Quotes About Gentry
#1. The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary
Isaac Deutscher
#2. Truly, you must have been unlucky. H'm! ... that sort of thing mostly comes about through poverty." "And is it any better with the gentry? Even among the poor, honest people live happily.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. Some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart ... it will keep you alive.
-merry gentry
Laurell K. Hamilton
#4. I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
Maya Angelou
#5. Maybe it's a symptom of a small town - and Gentry certainly was that - but for some, even after graduation, high school never really ends.
Matt Abrams
#6. He could have anything in there," Gentry said, pausing to look down at the unconscious face. He spun on his heel and began his pacing again. "A world. Worlds. Any number of personality-constructs ...
William Gibson
#7. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#8. I anticipate with joy the approaching period when the stigmas of poverty and pride so liberally bestowed on the highlanders by our southern gentry will be as inapplicable to the inhabitants of that country as of any in the island.
James Hogg
#9. Nothing but blues. It means nothing but lies. - Owen Gentry
Colleen Hoover
#10. There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
Thomas Browne
#11. GENTRY: ......I can load up your groceries for you."
BLAIRE: Maybe I don't need the help.
GENTRY: ....Fine, I'll stand back and stare at your ass while you unload the groceries into your car. Better?
T.S. Joyce
#12. Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. "There are worlds within worlds," he said. "Macrocosm, microcosm.
William Gibson
#13. I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.
Julian Fellowes
#14. Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I think you'll always be more attracted by glister than by gold.
Margaret Mitchell
#15. The president stopped and turned. "You are a soldier of fortune."
Gentry pushed him forward. "After expenses, I'm really more like a soldier of the middle class.
Mark Greaney
#16. Please, I do not wish to be rescued by a gentleman. Could you find a farmer or a shopkeep - anyone not of the gentry - and then do me a great favor of forgetting you saw me?
Cindy Anstey
#17. Tina, finding herself and her husband on a sandbank, so to speak, between two classes, had gone to the artists. The artists do not mind if one is gentry or a common cad so long as one is neither a snob nor a bore
Stella Gibbons
#18. BLAIRE: ......Night, Chaos.
GENTRY: Night, Trouble.....
T.S. Joyce
#19. The thing about dancing is that no matter how good it feels when you're doing it, it's always extremely awkward when it's over. - Owen Gentry
Colleen Hoover
#20. Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that's based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#21. If Rihanna stripped it all down morally rather than with her clothes, perhaps we'd get closer to Nina Simone. She's talented, but all we want is to sing the truth. If Britney Spears was to sing closer to her heart, she might have been the new Bobby Gentry or Dolly Parton.
Lou Doillon
#22. What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.
Dougray Scott
#23. I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a Romantic facination with structural decay; wealthy gentry had custom-built ruins erected on their estates, their own little Country Churchyards to elegize in
Paul Collins
#24. The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom ... have been thrust out of all public employment ... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.
William Cobbett
#25. People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
Jasmine Guinness
#26. The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#27. The gentry protect their names like hymens,
They suck their names like thumbs,
But they sign their names and something happens.
While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer,
All day, and nothing happens.
Paul Zimmer
#28. A palindrome, I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that's when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.
-Owen Gentry
Colleen Hoover
#29. An interesting one, this boy who looks like a Shadowhunter and speaks like gentry.
Cassandra Clare
#30. If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.
Savannah Stuart
#33. My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#34. Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again.
Amy Gentry
#35. This is why people need God - because people are awful, even the good ones.
Amy Gentry
#37. It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction ... [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
Gentry Lee
#38. The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever.
Georgina Gentry
#39. As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.
Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
#40. I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years, I said.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#41. You must remember your God is sovereign and all things come to pass by his own design. The hardest thing I have seen humans struggle with in trusting that whatever happens, no matter what the enemy sends your way, your God is still God, and he desires only good for you and your loved ones." Emily
Jen Gentry
#43. The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster.
-Merry
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. As a consequence of the spread of the gospel, history will experience widespread faith in God, righteousness on the personal and social levels, and international peace and prosperity on the cultural and political levels.
Ken Gentry
#47. In the end, service changes not those who are served but those doing the serving.
Lynne Gentry
#49. If I could wish one thing for my children, it would be wisdom. If they have wisdom, then they'll know how to seek and find everything else in life that matters.
Donna Gentry Morton
#50. Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
Tamora Pierce
#51. I have always thought it bad manners to let one's fingers stay too long in another man's snuffbox.
Anna Freeman
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