Bred Quotes

215 Bred quotes by 181 unique authors

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work… — David Suzuki
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman. — W. Somerset Maugham
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to… — Henry Ward Beecher
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. — Jonathan Swift
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. — Miguel de Cervantes
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others — Benjamin Franklin
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the… — William Shakespeare
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. — George Herbert
The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote… — William Cowper
Am I a Spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women? — Wilhelm Reich
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in… — Thorstein Veblen
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. — Max Muller
In nothing does man, with his grand notions of heaven and charity, show forth his innate, low-bred, wild animalism more clearly than in his treatment… — John Muir
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from… — William Osler
I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it… — Dylan Thomas
No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome. — Eugene O'Neill
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his blood have done… — William Osler
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie. — Bobby Gould
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial… — C.S. Lewis
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. — Lady Gregory
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned… — Erin Gruwell
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. — William Congreve
I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when… — Dane Cook
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay… — Evan Davis
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… — John Dryden

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