Breeding
of Breed
The act or process of generating or bearing.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
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Breeding Quotations
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
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.
Jeremy Rifkin
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
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.
Lord Chesterfield
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Lord Chesterfield
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Breeding Translations
breeding in Swedish is avel
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