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

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

Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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

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

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

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!

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

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

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

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

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

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.

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.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

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

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

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

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

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

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

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

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as long as you take your time to learn the etiquette of that venue.

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.