Breeding Quote by Mark Twain

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 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

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?”

— Euripides

“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

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Anything else from the fertile mind of...”

— Frederick Forsyth

“Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to…

— Amitav Ghosh

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

“Our genetic dispositions have a basis here- dispositions to dominate and to herd together for the sake of survival, to wander alone in hope…

— Richard Leo