Quotes with breed

  • 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
  • Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
  • Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
  • If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
  • Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind: 
 He took her in his arms and there and then 
 Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind, 
 Began in joy to found the breed of men.
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  • William Shakespeare How use doth breed a habit in man!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin A little neglect may breed great mischief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • A. D. Hope Adam had learned the jolly deed of kind:
    He took her in his arms and there and then
    Like the clean beasts, embracing from behind,
    Began in joy to found the breed of men.
    Imperial Adam (l. 25-28)
    A. D. Hope
    Australian poet and essayist (1907 - 2000)
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Eliot Breed is stronger than pasture.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Seneca Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Josh Billings Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • George Washington I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I really hope people go out and support the indie filmmakers, because it's a dying breed and there's a lot of cool voices out there that need to be heard.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Francis Bacon Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Gerda Lerner Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
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  • W. Penn Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • William Wordsworth Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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