Breeding Quote by 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

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 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

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

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below…

— Jonathan Swift

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man's own good breeding ishis best security against other people's ill-manners.

— Anonymous

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Lillian Hellman