Quotes on Good Breeding

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

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

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.