Quotes about Gentility

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

— Georgia Harkness

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— William Hazlitt

Love is a beautiful image Imagined or seen within the heart, The friend of virtue and gentility.

— Michelangelo

I was always myself and was respectful to anybody I was around in this business.

— Rich Swann

The greater man the greater courtesy.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson