Breeding 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

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

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

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 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 art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by…

— Cato the Younger

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

— Lillian Hellman

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 differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its…

— Thomas Carlyle

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

— William Wycherley