Good Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it's like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I enjoy giving back.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.