A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Benjamin Franklin

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Bear Bred Breeding Cannot Ill Others Well

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

Socrates

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Seneca the Younger

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Lord Chesterfield

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Matthew Henry

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

Takashi Murakami

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

A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.

George Herbert

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Charles James

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

Wilfred Bion

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents

Margaret Sanger

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.

Margaret Cavendish

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.