Top 24 Quotes About Urbanity
#2. Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#3. The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
Joseph Joubert
#4. After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village who, piece by piece, strips off his Sunday best, slowly changing back into a peasant as he gets closer to his home.
Bruno Schulz
#5. There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
#6. URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
Ambrose Bierce
#7. What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.
Virginia Postrel
#9. Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
#10. Aping urbanity,
Oozing with vanity,
Plump as a manatee,
Faking humanity,
Intellectual inanity,
Journalistic calamity,
Fox Noise insanity,
You're a profanity,
Hannity
John Cleese
#11. When I fell in love with hip-hop, my favorite rapper was Jay-Z. But I used to like Common and Nas. But I was a South dude. So I grew up on UGK, Triple Six, Outkast, and Pastor Troy. That's where I get my lingo, my slang, my passion.
Cyhi The Prynce
#12. There's a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence - it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn't mean you are special - it means he is troubled.
Gavin De Becker
#13. I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be.
Tracy Chevalier
#14. To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.
Abdu'l- Baha
#15. If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.
Jim Steinman
#16. Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.
James Brolin
#17. Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.
Sol Luckman
#18. I think that there's too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don't win in life and you don't win in athletics with softness or selfishness.
Buzz Williams
#20. But a century from now, your mortal associates will be rotting in the earth, whereas, barring amputation or radical shifts in fashion, you will still be putting your pants on one leg at a time.
Jim Butcher
#21. The noble-minded have nine states of mind: for eyes, bright; for ears, penetrating; for countenance; cordial; for demeanor, humble; for words, trustworthy; for service, reverent; for doubt, questioning; for anger circumspect; and for facing a chance to profit, moral.
Confucius
#22. My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
#23. But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
Sidney Sheldon
#24. Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.
Bernard Madoff
