Breeding Quote by George MacDonald

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

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

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 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 is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

— Joseph Addison

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Joseph Addison

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

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This…

— Henry Fielding