Breed Quotes

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. (Kiran Desai)
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. View quote
Emily Brontë
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. View quote
William Penn
Idleness and laziness not only breed ignorance, but they are also the cause of illness. View quote
Avicenna
Consider your breed you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge. View quote
Dante Alighieri
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. View quote
William Hazlitt
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. View quote
William Hazlitt
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (Douglas MacArthur)
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. View quote
Willa Cather
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. View quote
William Congreve
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. View quote
Josh Billings
Breed is stronger than pasture. View quote
George Eliot
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature . . . View quote
George Eliot
There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created. View quote
Guillermo del Toro
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams -- can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man. (William Wordsworth)
How use doth breed a habit in a man. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. View quote
David Remnick
Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. View quote
Alyssa Milano
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes. View quote
Knute Rockne