Quotes with genteel

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

  Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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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
  American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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• 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.

  Carolyn See
  American writer (1934 - 2016)
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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
  American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• compromises
• traditions
• inevitably
• depressing
• squeamish
• gillespie

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