Quotes About Gentility

Flower-shopping is a ladylike occupation that does not involve getting your hands dirty; it is about supplying the house with beauty, not scrubbing it clean.

Ne tuhaf deÄŸil mi? diye devam etti.Biz kibarlar, uygar davran??lar?m?zla övünürüz ama birbirimizi yemeyi en güzel yemeklere tercih ederiz.

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints.

Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed, and betray others.

Manners won't cost you a thing," Asa said. "But they may gain you plenty.

Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach

And I have to tell you,' he continued a little worriedly, 'that the tales of its barbarous and primitive manners are myriad. We are in a savage place here – Doctor, was it? – a place of infamy and the fecund darkness of the death of gentility. . .

it is a lady's handkerchief,

There's a civility that has always been a part of me.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

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

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.

Couples were already gliding over the floor beyond: the light of the wax candles fell on revolving tulle skirts, on girlish heads wreathed with modest blossoms, on the dashing aigrettes and ornaments of the young married women's coiffures, and on the glitter of highly glazed shirt-fronts and fresh glacé gloves.

The very pink of courtesy.

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.

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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I wish you'd stop talking about your own death, Gus said, in a joking tone. It ain't genteel.