Good Breeding Quotes
Collection of top 36 famous quotes about Good Breeding
Good Breeding Quotes & Sayings
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There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
— Fanny Kemble
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
— 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 us.
— Jonathan Swift
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
— William Wycherley
I was too jitterbuggy happy to sleep, and the whole day kept playing in my brain's little screening room.
— Daniel Handler
I am a guinea pig in the laboratory of God.
— Timothy Power
Where would anyone in publicity be if they allowed sensitivity, restraint, breeding or good taste to stand in their way?
— Isabelle Holland
What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.
— P.D. James
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
— Lord Chesterfield
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
— Democritus
Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.
— Samuel Johnson
Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.
— Ashanti
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
— Martin Short
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
— Joseph Addison
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
— Van Wyck Brooks
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
— Lord Chesterfield
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.
— Jude Morgan
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
Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.
— George MacDonald
