Breeding Quote by Joseph Addison

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Julia McNair Wright

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

— John Ruskin

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to…

— John Dewey

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manners have been somewhatcynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson