Top 1200 Good Breeding Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

People simply shouldn't buy puppies without a breeding certificate.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're not aware of all of them yet, though we suffer from them. And they mislead us not only about ethics but also about aesthetics.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

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 will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

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.

Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.

You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.

Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.

In general, the larger the breeding population, the slower the rate of evolution.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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

A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an apposite moment of mental relaxation, is becoming in the most serious of men, whereas the other is unworthy of any free person, if the content is indecent or the expression obscene.

There are good roles for actors of every age now. In fact TV is a breeding ground for new talents. There are so many actors who start their journey with television, learn so much from here and then start try in films and web.

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

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

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

The well-mannered man never puts out his hand in greeting until a lady extends hers. This is a test of good breeding that is constantly applied. ... The first move in the direction of cordiality must come from the lady, the whole code of behaviour being based on the assumption that she is the social superior.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

These puppy mills are horrific. It's totally for-profit breeding. It's despicable.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

My wife and I started a breeding program where we breed American quarter horses.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

I've been breeding Dobies for years. Almost won the breed in Westminster at one time.