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Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Anonymous

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Joseph Addison

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

— Benjamin Franklin

I believe I was born to breed.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds for speed,…

— George Bernard Shaw

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 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

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

— Anton Chekhov

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

— Lord Chesterfield