Gentility Quotes

• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Drawing
  • Masters
  • Spy

• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Running
  • Fashion
  • Vulgarity

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Disposition
  • Meanness

• Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Baseball
  • Games
  • 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.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Wealth

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

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Flesh
  • Gentility
  • Leanness

• 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.

  

  Zicheng Hong
  • Justice
  • Inspire
  • Sincerity

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

  

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
  • Men
  • Manners
  • Gentility

• 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.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Society
  • Road
  • Changing