People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Simplicity is a great element of 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.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.