Democritus
Philosopher
"Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character."
Breeding quotes
Breeding
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Physician, Poet, Essayist
"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"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."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others"
Martin Gardner
Mathematician
"The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them."
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"Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding."
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