Ancestor Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of…

— Edith Wharton

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to…

— John Dewey

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

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

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom…

— Jules Romains

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is…

— Charles Kingsley

Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

— Lord Chesterfield