Deformity Quote by John Ruskin

No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.

— John Ruskin

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Samuel Johnson

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and…

— David Hume

His modesty amounts to deformity.

— Margot Asquith

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily…

— Anonymous

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example,…

— Bernard de Mandeville

Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the…

— John Frederick Boyes

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

— Richard Steele

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

— Julia McNair Wright