Breeding Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

— Anonymous

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below…

— Jonathan Swift

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to…

— Herman Melville

“Our genetic dispositions have a basis here- dispositions to dominate and to herd together for the sake of survival, to wander alone in hope…

— Richard Leo

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

Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

— Mamphela Ramphele

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and,…

— 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

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

— Anton Chekhov

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

— Wendell Berry

“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no…

— Yuval Noah Harari