Gentility Quotes

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. - Mary Russell Mitford

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else. - Al Alvarez

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

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

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. - John Ciardi

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. - William Hazlitt

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. - Willie Mays