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  • Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323
  • 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.

  • Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

  • 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.

    Gentleman   Crowds   May  
    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.38
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

    Humility   Pride   Devil  
    'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)
  • Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.

    Summer   Dream   Spring  
    Clive Barker (1991). “The Hellbound Heart”, Voyager
  • 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

    Men   Doe   Lions  
  • To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

    Sports   Thinking   Cash  
    1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.
  • There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

  • Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

    Modern Life   Gone   Rich  
  • If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most of them through the Sufis, because human beings are such that they are affected by people of spiritual character. Certainly when they display nobility and hospitality and gentility and love and are not selfish or aggressive, and they are honest.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • 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.

  • I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

    Source: www.english.illinois.edu
  • There is such a thing as too much couth.

    1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.
  • Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

    Men   Surfer   Wave  
  • Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

    Loyalty   Lying   Hands  
  • A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.

    Men   Manners   Gentility  
  • He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

    Body   Flesh   Way  
    Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.39, Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 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.

    Nervous   Poet   British  
    Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 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?

    Heart   Angel   Men  
  • The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

    Religion   May   Danger  
  • 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.

    Baseball   Games   Pace  
  • American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

    Animal   Men   Stupidity  
    Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”
  • Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

    William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92
  • Southern gentility is evocative to me.

    "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.
  • Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel,. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.

    Hate   Work   Israel  
    "Christmas 2015 Brings More Misery, Poverty and Dispossession for Bethlehem and Palestinians" by Raouf Halaby, www.counterpunch.org. December 25, 2015.
  • The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

    Oscars   Welfare   Wilde  
    Joe Orton (1998). “The Visitors: Fred and Madge : Two Plays”, p.13, Grove Press
  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

    Courage   People   Lions  
  • 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.

    Moving   People   Justice  
  • 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.

    1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.
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