Appearance Quote by Joseph Addison

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

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

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security,…

— Bertrand Russell

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

— George MacDonald

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

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

— Leon Kass

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently,…

— Henry Fielding