A Quote by William Hazlitt

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

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Any Born Bred Hard Honest Politician

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William Hazlitt
English - Critic
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.

William Cobbett

I'm Hackney born and bred and find it hard to call anywhere else home despite the extreme ongoing gentrification which gets me down.

Zawe Ashton

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.

Paul Bloom

You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.

Dalton Trumbo

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Getting the truth out of any politician is hard.

Bez

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 the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Oscar Wilde

I still remember my days in Komarock estate, the days when it was all normal, and even though I am born and bred in Belgium, I could easily fit in and feel like any other Kenyan.

Divock Origi

Sometimes I pine for the era of Miss Manners, when there were hard and fast rules dictating a well-bred individual's behaviour in any given situation.

Lynn Coady

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Kate Atkinson

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~