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
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 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
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
“[Y]ou shouldn't cut your old friends now that you have risen in the world. That's what we call snobbery.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
