Gentility Quotes - Page 2

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

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, Games, Great Baseball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Pride, Devil

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

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• 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.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Hate, Work, Israel

  "Christmas 2015 Brings More Misery, Poverty and Dispossession for Bethlehem and Palestinians" by Raouf Halaby, www.counterpunch.org. December 25, 2015.

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• Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Belief, Opinion, Manners

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)”, p.87, Random House

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  England, Wonderful, Surface

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

  E. M. Forster

  Class, Manners

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• Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

  George Herbert

  Riches, Ancient

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

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• Southern gentility is evocative to me.

  Rosanne Cash

  Southern

  "The essential Rosanne Cash". Interview with Bob Gendron, articles.chicagotribune.com. November 16, 2012.

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

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

  Men, Manners

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• 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.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Selfish, Character

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Lying, Struggle, Doing Nothing

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