breed quotes

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

- Alan Bennett
  FortyYears On (published1969), act 2. Snobbery With Violence was used as a book title by Colin Wilson (1971).

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  On writing novels to support his love of writing poetry. In the NewYork Times,13  Jul.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Thou art indeed just, Lord'.

We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

- Herman Mankiewicz
  George Sanders as  Addison De Witt in  All  About Eve.

John Bull has gone to India And all must pay him heed For histories are there to prove That none of another breed Has had a like inheritance, Or sucked such milk as he, And there's no luck about a house If it lacks honesty. The ghost of Roger Casement Is beating on the door.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'The Ghost of Roger Casement', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).