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Gentility Quotes

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it Picture Quote #1

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone Picture Quote #1

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun Picture Quote #1

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing from dead men’s dust and bones; and none of yours except you make and hold it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility Picture Quote #1

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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For you cannot have gentility without paying for it (Gentility Quotes) Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone (Gentility Quotes) To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun (Gentility Quotes) Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes) 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. (Gentility Quotes) 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. (Gentility Quotes) Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. (Gentility Quotes) 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. (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes) I would have you not stand so much on your gentility, which is an airy and mere borrowed thing from dead men’s dust and bones; and none of yours except you make and hold it (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes) He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility (Gentility Quotes) The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes) 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 (Gentility Quotes)