None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent.
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
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.
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered.
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.
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.
I only know one thing. I have been bred through the Heat organization to do it one way. And every day, you prepare.
My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.
I'm a born and bred Sheffield man and I just want the city to do well with sport.
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.
I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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 not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.
We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.
I'm a Mancunian born and bred and I feel I'm no different to the man in the crowd and it's nice to reward them. I want to become a great champion.
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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