(33 quotes found)
“There isn't anything you can't stand, if you are only born and bred to it”
Mark Twain
“He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others”
Benjamin Franklin
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“By education most have been misled; so they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, and thus the child imposes on the man.”
John Dryden
“Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagernes”
David Hume
“Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway”
George Santayana
“It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.”
William Hazlitt
“He hath not fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink.”
William Shakespeare
“I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.”
Damien Hirst
“My son - and what's a son? A thing begot / Within a pair of minutes, thereabouts, / A lump bred up in darkness.”
Thomas Kyd
