Breeding Quotes

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

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

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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.

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.

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

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

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

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

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

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

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

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

I’d signed six things and my stack wasn’t getting any smaller. It was like the paperwork was breeding while I worked.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

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

Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry.