#genteel

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

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

— Thomas Hardy

#dialect #genteel #marks #terrible #those

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#company #exist #genteel #impossible #polite

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

#compromises #discarded #etiquette #field #find