Good Breeding Quotes

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

Good, Person, Ourselves

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Others, Rather

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Wife, Together

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Good, Person, Breeding

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

Nature, Good, Truth

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

Nature, Good, Others

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, Knowledge, Small

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble

Good, Great, Simplicity

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley

Love, Good, Women

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