By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
It was these same families [Rothschild, Rockefeller, Harriman, Bush, etc] who funded the eugenics movement which is pledged to remove the lower… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“The gentleman in charge of the Correspondence Courses was plainly doubtful about the prisoner of middle age who was anxious to enroll… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Well, puppy mills are - it's just a name given to really, really bad dog breeding facilities and sadly, we have a… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide.… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could… — Joschka Fischer Copy Share Image
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
“By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
Well, actually I think it's very important with breeding thoroughbreds - which I did for a period - and my husband is… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret… — Alice Walton Copy Share Image
Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Growing up in that fashion is a breeding ground for insecurity and doubt; it also leaves you questioning motives. It took me… — Damon Runyon Copy Share Image
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image