Born Quote by Margaret Cavendish

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

— Anonymous

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

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the…

— Moderata Fonte

“Females were to be cherished and nurtured regardless of their species”

— Charlene Hartnady

“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

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

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

— Lillian Hellman

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.

— Peter R. Grant

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

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

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a…

— Thomas Aquinas