Bears Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Anonymous

A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners.

— Anonymous

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Joseph Addison

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

— Charles Buxton

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds for speed,…

— George Bernard Shaw

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it…

— E. B. White

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

— Samuel Johnson