A Quote by Oliver Goldsmith
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
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I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel.
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.
If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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