Genteel Quotes
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Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
— Rosemary Mahoney
My favourite sport is cheerleading!
— Miley Cyrus
In no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
— George Eliot
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.
— Arnold Bennett
I don't engage in hypotheticals.
— Leon Panetta
See yourself as who you want to be, not who you think you are.
— Rowena Portch
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
— William Hazlitt
Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!
— George R R Martin
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
— Burgess Meredith
As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.
— Bipasha Basu
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
— Lord Chesterfield
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
— Terry Pratchett
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
— Geoffrey Gray
To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
— Edmund Phelps
Keep calm and let your heart sing the song of kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED
— Charlotte Bronte
Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.
— Nancy Springer
But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.
— Shane Koyczan
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
None of this, of course, was ever stated: the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit.
— Julian Barnes
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
— Marshall McLuhan
People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
You have to compensate for the luck thing by working as hard as you can and doing the very best you can do.
— Max Bemis
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— Alan Dean Foster
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
— Joe Biden
Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it's a fierce and unforgiving team sport.
— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz