Animal Quote by Thomas Malthus

“It becomes obvious the moment we acknowledge the futility of breeding men for special qualities as we breed cocks for game, greyhounds for speed,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by…

— Cato the Younger

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

— George Eliot

Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This…

— Henry Fielding

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

— Anonymous

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display…

— H. G. Wells

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…

— Jonathan Swift

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

— Friedrich Nietzsche