Gentility Quotes
Collection of top 23 famous quotes about Gentility
Gentility Quotes & Sayings
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It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.
— Tipu Sultan
I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
— Mathieu Amalric
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.
— Pat Conroy
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
— E. M. Forster
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
— William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.
— Joe Orton
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.
— Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
— Georgia Harkness
Southern gentility is evocative to me.
— Rosanne Cash
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.
— George Herbert
There is such a thing as too much couth.
— S.J Perelman
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
— H. Allen Smith
Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.
— Jonny Steinberg
Music ... This is the favorite passion of my soul.
— Thomas Jefferson
