Behavior Quote by Lord Chesterfield

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

— Anonymous

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

— Joseph Addison

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

“If asked how we'd behave in a situation that pits a private benefit against the greater good, most of us won't admit to favoring…

— Steven D. Levitt

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

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

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the…

— Gena Showalter

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

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

— Robert Nozick

The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for…

— Christopher Nolan

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

— Marquis de Sade