Breeding Quotes

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

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

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.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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.

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

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.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

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

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

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.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.