12 Quotations with Genteel.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.
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- 2. Ambrose Bierce: REGALIA, n. Distinguishing insignia, jewels and costume of such ancient and hono ...

- 3. Terry Pratchett: A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

- 4. Thomas Hardy: Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

- 5. Yvor Winters: Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, ca ...

- 6. Henry Fielding: Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more i ...

- 7. Elwyn Brooks White: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (I ...

- 8. Winwood W. Reade: There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came dow ...

- 9. Leslie Fiedler: Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit ...

- 10. Vincent Canby: It is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for ...

- 11. Sinclair Lewis: There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in ...

- 12. Amy Vanderbilt: I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most gen ...

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