Well Bred Quotes
27 quotes by 23 authors
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway
— George Santayana
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
— Johann Georg Hamann
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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
— Plato
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Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter,…
— Lord Chesterfield
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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
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In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and…
— Bea Arthur
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None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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…
— David Hume
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It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
— Eugene O'Neill
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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco…
— Moliere
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No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
— Oscar Wilde
Who Wrote These Well Bred Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 27 Well Bred Quotes as follows: