Breeding Quote by Socrates

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Samuel Johnson

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written,…

— Teju Cole

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

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

— David Almond

I always choose to use the word often instead of (unintelligible). Just changing it up, changing it up.

— Hayden Panettiere

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Sometimes words are not enough.

— Anonymous

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

— Henry Watson Fowler

So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of…

— Italo Calvino