Breeding Quote by Lillian Hellman

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

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

Nothing stops my thought's from breeding

— Leaether Strip

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

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

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

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

— Joseph Addison

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

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

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton