Breeding Quotes

174 quotes by 151 authors

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or… — Diane Ackerman
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. — Joseph Addison
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
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… — Thomas Carlyle
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… — Lord Chesterfield
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss… — William Penn
Extreme poverty is the best breeding ground on earth for disease, political instability, and terrorism. — Jeffrey Sachs
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with… — Elwyn Brooks White
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for… — Wickliffe Rose
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a… — H.G. Wells

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