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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
Author:
James Thurber
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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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.
Author:
Sam Shepard
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Author:
George Shaw
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Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Author:
Queen Romania
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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.
Author:
Anne Perry
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Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.
Author:
Rod Parsley
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Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Author:
Thomas Morgan
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Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Author:
Anna Lindh
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The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.
Author:
Chris LeDoux
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Author:
Fanny Kemble
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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.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.
Author:
Peter Grant
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
Author:
Joschka Fischer
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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.
Author:
James Cooper
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Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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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.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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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.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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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.
Author:
Margaret Cavendish
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Author:
Luther Burbank
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Author:
Van Brooks
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The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Author:
Dorothy Briggs
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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.
Author:
Paul Berg
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Author:
Aristophanes
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Author:
Joseph Addison
