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He was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto 3, stanza 41.
The word "agronomy" is the short way of indicating agriculture , horticulture, viticulture, arboriculture, dairying, breeding of live stock, beekeeping, &c.
— South Australia. Dept. of Agriculture (1899) Journal of Agriculture and Industry of South Australia, p. 363
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
william congreve— 1700 Petulant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act1, sc.9.
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot— The Waste Land, pt. 1, 'The Burial of the Dead' (1922)
As with new wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings Wherewith to scorn the earth.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.1007-10.
It's a na|«ve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
— 1937 Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 27 Mar.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
ernest hemingway— Ch. 12 (A Moveable Feast (1964))
Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
fanny kemble— Further Records, 1848-1883, vol. 1; entry dated January 20, 1875 (1891).
George Moore had a ceaseless preoccupation with painting and the theatre, within certain limits a technical understanding of both; whatever idea possessed him, courage and explosive power; but sacrificed all that seemed to other men good breeding, honour, friendship, in pursuit of what he called the root facts of life.
George Moore— William Butler Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats (1926) [Macmillan, 1965, ISBN 0-02-055580-6]: "Dramatis Personae, 1986 - 1902," ch. 7 (p. 269).
Formerly character proved a strong curb for passions; in the present there is not much strength in character, and it grows less and less because of the prevailing scepticism, which is a decomposing element. It is like a bacillus breeding in the human soul; it destroys the resistant power against the physiological craving of the nerves, of nerves diseased. The modern man is conscious of everything, and cannot find a remedy against anything.
henryk sienkiewicz— 10 November (Without Dogma (1891))
It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
james thurber— Cartoon caption (1944), in which a dinner host is speaking to his guests about the wine, reproduced in The Thurber Carnival (1945).
While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
thorstein veblen— p.51 (The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899))
Just as "pluck" comes of breeding, so is endurance especially an attribute of the artist. Because he can stand outside himself, and (if there be nothing ignoble in them) take pleasure in his own sufferings, the artist has a huge advantage over you and me.
max beerbohm— Ch. XV (Zuleika Dobson (1911))
By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
Anton Chekhov— A Futile Occurrence
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
Democritus— Freeman (1948) , p. 151Variant: Strength of body is nobility only in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in man.Durant (1939) , Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment 57"
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
e. m. forster— A Room with a View (1908) Ch. 3
Let them have what instructions you will, and ever so learned lectures of breeding daily inculcated into them, that which will most influence their carriage will be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about them.
john locke— Sec. 67 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
The beauty or uncomeliness of many things, in good and ill breeding, will be better learnt, and make deeper impressions on them, in the examples of others, than from any rules or instructions can be given about them.
john locke— Sec. 82 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.
margaret sanger— Chapter 30, "Now Is the Time for Converse", p. 374.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw— Act IV (The Philanderer (1893))
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the Conqueror.
— Richard Brome, The English Moor, Act II. 4.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Clio's Protest. See Moore's Life of Sheridan, Volume I, p. 55.
Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
— Durant (1939) , Ch. XVI, §II, p. 354; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment 57"
Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.
jean-baptiste say— Book III, On Consumption, Chapter VI, Section II, p. 432
