(169 quotes found)
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway”
The Talmud
“You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.”
Aristophanes
“Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.”
Wendell Phillips
“The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake
“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
Charles Kingsley
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence”
“I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.”
Ezra Pound
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.”
William Arthur Ward
