Good Breeding Quotes

23 quotes by 17 authors

• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. — Joseph Addison
• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own… — Thomas Carlyle
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all… — Lord Chesterfield
• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley
• Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. — Democritus
• The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. — George Bernard Shaw
• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the… — Van Wyck Brooks
• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends;… — William Shakespeare
• There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a… — Jules Romains
• There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
• 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
• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. — Fanny Kemble
• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. — Mark Twain
• There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,… — Miguel de Cervantes

Who Wrote These Good Breeding Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 23 Good Breeding Quotes as follows:

• 5 Good Breeding Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
• 2 Good Breeding Quotes by Joseph Addison
• 2 Good Breeding Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Gail Carriger
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Susan Cain
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by William Wycherley
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Democritus
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Jules Romains
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Fanny Kemble
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Miguel de Cervantes
• 1 Good Breeding Quote by Terry Pratchett