Gute Zucht / Good Breeding Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Gute Zucht / Good Breeding:

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. Fanny Kemble

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Fanny Kemble

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

William Wycherley

While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.

Terry Glavin