Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 2790.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Betty Dodson The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Alighieri Dante The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Publilius Syrus The next day is never so good as the day before.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously - and have somebody find out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Robert Brault The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brooke Shields The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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