Breeding Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

— Anonymous

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

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

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

— George MacDonald

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

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

— Joseph Addison

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

— Lillian Hellman

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

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

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

— Benjamin Franklin

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This…

— Henry Fielding