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The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it. — William Gurnall

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all. — William Congreve

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn Waugh

Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate, — Karen Armstrong

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

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Jonathan Swift

It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone. — John Heywood

Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

I'm double bred for death by fire. — Cormac McCarthy

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wasn't bred to kill with my hands. I was trained to. There's a difference." "Not to me. It amounts to the same deadness. — K.F. Breene

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler

The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel. — Frances E. Willard

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! — Charlotte Bronte

What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice. — Katherine Dunn

the best-bred dogs belong in the surest hands. — Amor Towles

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde

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 Dostoyevsky

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. — William Shakespeare

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space. — Damien Hirst

Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow! — William Wordsworth

overreliance bred complacency. I — Tarah Benner

When you are bred to be white trash, you do what you can to avoid the family trap. — Gayle Forman

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. — Julia McNair Wright

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad. — Dane Cook

The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease. — Doug Stanhope

I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie. — Bobby Gould

So much depends on the constant cooperation of well-trained servants. Without it, the best bred of hostesses is placed at a disadvantage. — Lucy Lethbridge

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell

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. — Allyson Felix

The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. — Larry Merchant

Mourning suits us Spanish women.
Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe
we are bred for the part. — Judith Ortiz Cofer

He had offered some of his own background. A youth in the South. An education in the North. Bred for life in the East. Trying not to die in the West. — Mary Doria Russell

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are? — Euripides

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species. — Kim Askew

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes? — William Butler Yeats

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. — Margaret Cavendish

People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition. — Allan Dare Pearce

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. — Terry Pratchett

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman. — W. Somerset Maugham

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. — Michel De Montaigne

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. — Ralph Nader

Aunt Agatha is like an elephant- not so much to look at, for in appearance she resembles more a well-bred vulture, but because she never forgets. — P.G. Wodehouse

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, He writes murder mysteries. — Josh Lanyon

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. — Coco Lee

Up 5.15 a.m. thinking, packpackpack. I appear to have accumulated more things. How did this happen? I haven't shopped. Think my bath oils have bred. — Emma Thompson

Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him. — Mark Gatiss

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

Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment. — Aldous Huxley

I was born and bred to be a great flirt. — Cybill Shepherd

Divine blood purified our muddy race, bred heroes from dust and clay. — Madeline Miller

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence. — Aristotle.

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The — Hans Christian Andersen

Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved. — Fazil Iskander

Mythology works ... because Indians have been bred on myths. — Ashwin Sanghi

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. — George Herbert

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. — Herman Wouk

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.
-Shekinah — P.C. Cast

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

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. — Nicholas Sparks

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. — George Herbert

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. — William Congreve

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. — Ben Jonson

Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. — William Shakespeare

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist. — Francis Kilvert