Behaviour Quote by Jonathan Swift

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Anonymous

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— 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, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…

— Plato