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This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.
— Virginia Woolf
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
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
— Johann Georg Hamann
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
— Samuel Butler
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
— Theophile Gautier
Passion is not well bred.
— Jeanette Winterson
Wit is well-bred insolence.
— Aristotle.
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
— Lord Chesterfield
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others.
— Benjamin Franklin
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Well-bred English people never have imagination ...
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Consider the contrast between the well-bred,
— Joseph Devlin
Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority.
— Alexandra Fuller
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
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.
— Michel De Montaigne
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
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
'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
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
— W. Somerset Maugham
