Breeding Quotes

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

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.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

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.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.

When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.

The folkish philosophy of life must succeed in bringing about that nobler age in which men no longer are concerned with breeding dogs, horses, and cats, but in elevating man himself.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

... enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.