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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Hardy |

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Yvor Winters |

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | W Winwood Reade |

A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! |

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Friedrich Nietzsche |