Quotes of: Good-breeding Keyword

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Dr. Zaius: The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.

Planet of the Apes

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

Anna Julia Cooper

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long...

Gone with the Wind

The president, the secretary of state, the businessman, the preacher, the vendor, the spies, the clients and managers—all walking around Wall Street like chickens with their heads cut off—rushing to escape bankruptcy—plotting to melt down the S...

Giannina Braschi

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

His Majesty's Dragon

'Skins' had been a brilliant breeding ground for young actors, young directors and young writers. It was a safe environment to experiment; it tried new things, and it was an amazing time and amazing to be part of it.

Joe Dempsie

I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B's: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.

Alice Walton

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

The Age of Miracles

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

A Room with a View

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.

Lords of Dyscrasia

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

Snuff

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Travels With Myself

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer.

Unique: A New Breed

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

Why Time Begins on Opening Day

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

Maureen O'Hara