Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the fine

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets! – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Honesty
Read Quote

Mans unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Sadness
Read Quote

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
great
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Class
category

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, whats left of them. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Class

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. – Dante Alighieri

Category:
Class

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Class

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes. – William Ewart Gladstone

Category:
Class

Random Quotes

In truth, I am a single mother. But I dont feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. – Padma Lakshmi

Category:
alone

Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus

Category:
Change

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. – Tobias Smollett

Category:
Ignorance

Im not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. – Lord Acton

Category:
Business