Breeding/people

Famous quotes containing the words breeding and/or people:

    “Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.”
    —Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910)