“ The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society. ”
- Robert J. Havighurst- Copy
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“ A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made. ”
- Amy Vanderbilt- Copy
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“ There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. ”
- Sinclair Lewis- Copy
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“ Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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“ GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent. Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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