Good-breeding

Good-breeding, the line also hints toward a sexual excess that parallels that of the sensual gourmand or glutton.

'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006

Good-breeding, and good-nature, do incline us rather to raise and help 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.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

They had the dollars, they were on top; but some day the nemesis of Good-breeding would smite them -- the army of the ghosts of Gentility would rise, and with "Marse Robert" and "Jeb" Stuart at their head, would sweep away the hordes of commercialdom.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

Whether this Politeness observ'd at Plays may be owing to their Clime, their Complexion, or their Government, is of no great Consequence; but if it is to be acquired, methinks it is pity our accomplish'd Countrymen, who every Year import so much of this Nation's gawdy Garniture, should not, in this long Course of our Commerce with them, have brought over a little of their Theatrical Good-breeding too.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

In the common Theatre the Guests are at home, where the politer Forms of Good-breeding are not so nicely regarded: Every one there falls to, and likes or finds fault according to his natural Taste or Appetite.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

Good-breeding NEVER forgets that amour-propre is universal.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Good-breeding NEVER forgets that amour-propre is universal.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Good-breeding was a science in France; natural to a peasant, even, it was studied as an epitome of all the social virtues.

The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Philip Wharton 1847

(Petrie, in his Essay on Good-breeding, dedicated to the magistrates of Edinburgh, recommends, upon his own experience, as tutor in a family of distinction, this attitude to all led captains, tutors, dependants, and bottle-holders of every description.)

The Antiquary 1845

America may hope to excel all Nations in Refinement, Taste, and Good-breeding; and why.

A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Catharine Esther Beecher 1839