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.
Anne Perry

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.
James F. Cooper

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

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.
Arthur Keith

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.
Adam Schiff

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

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Romania

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.
Margaret Cavendish

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.
Rod Parsley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Jung

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.
Paul Berg

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.
Margaret Cavendish

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

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.
Mary Garden