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
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield 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
“And it's not my fault that I have a penchant for good breeding, reasonable intelligence, and passable personal hygiene, not necessarily in… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of… — George Stillman Hillard 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
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is… — Lord Chesterfield 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
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
Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without… — William Shakespeare 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
A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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
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
“[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
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
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