One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.” — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“You know what she's made of." "Yeah, good stock, good breeding, a hard head and a hunger to win." She flashed him… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. — Democritus Copy Share Image
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“He is just what a young man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!—so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
