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Bred Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
- No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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- If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let… — Lord Byron
- All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred… — Willa Cather
- Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall
- Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway — George Santayana
- Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol
- What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn… — Unknown Author
- A dreamer born is a hero bred... — Mary Chapin Carpenter
- I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and… — Damien Hirst
- I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words… — Jonathan Swift
- Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. — Unknown Author