Appearance Quote by Anton Chekhov

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

— Anonymous

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

— Joseph Addison

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by…

— Cato the Younger

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature -…

— Gad Saad

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or…

— Henry Fielding

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places…

— John James Audubon

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

— Lord Chesterfield

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

— Samuel Johnson

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

— Lord Chesterfield

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

— Lillian Hellman