Bred Quotes

215 Bred quotes by 181 unique authors

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! — Isaac Asimov
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating… — Frank Herbert
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my… — Theodore Roosevelt
It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing… — Edith Wharton
But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the… — Rohinton Mistry
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose… — John Milton
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
Adaptation is one of the great advantages to being born and bred in Jersey. We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water. We're… — Janet Evanovich
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. — Miguel de Cervantes
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought… — Sue Monk Kidd
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah — P. C. Cast
I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can… — Mary Karr
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.… — C.S. Lewis
He had relieved whores beyond counting of frocks, stays, chemises, garters, and stockings. He had never before in his life unbuttoned a gently bred maiden's… — Loretta Chase
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell
And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mr Beach was too well bred to be inquisitive, but his eyebrows here not. 'Ah!' he said. '?', cried the eyebrows. '? ? ?' Ashe… — P.G. Wodehouse
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a… — Deanna Raybourn
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! — Charlotte Bronte
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard
Recently Mr. Mawdsley’s donkey escaped from his stall, raced down the road, and somehow found his way into an enclosed pasture. Mr. Caird’s prized mare… — Lisa Kleypas
To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which… — Theophile Gautier

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