When we began this fight, we had clean handsöare they clean now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

-Galsworthy,John
  The Skin Game, act 3.

Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.8.

   To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

-Mitford, Mary Russell
  Letter to R B Haydon, 24  Aug.

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentilityand I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

-Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)
In the Observer, 24 Sep.