Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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.
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.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
