Breeding Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. (Mark Twain)
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. View quote
Fanny Kemble
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. View quote
Aristophanes
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. View quote
James Thurber
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. View quote
Joseph Addison
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. View quote
Garrett Hardin
If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things, and the more his understanding is enlightened. (Jean-Baptiste Say)
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime. View quote
Margaret Cavendish
You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. View quote
Margaret Sanger
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character. View quote
Democritus
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. View quote
Anton Chekhov
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
Selective breeding in Christian countries has led to ... the progressive elimination of defective persons. View quote
Rousas John Rushdoony
For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. (Hilary Mantel)
An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception. View quote
John Bevere
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. View quote
Meg Rosoff
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. View quote
Alice Walton
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. View quote
Arthur Keith