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Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land? -- Emily Dickinson
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. -- Oscar Wilde
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic. -- Seamus Heaney
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. -- John Cleveland
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. -- Jonathan Swift
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. -- Erin Gruwell
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. -- Sophocles
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. -- George Eliot
Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness. -- Wole Soyinka
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. -- Paul Watson
Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. -- Robin Williams
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. -- Willa Cather
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
I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good. -- Mark Viduka
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. -- Douglas MacArthur
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. -- Marquis de Sade
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States. -- Amanda Hearst
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. I'm there, reaching up to play the records. I feel like I was bred to do what I do. I've been into music, and listening to music and critiquing it, my whole life. -- Dr. Dre
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. -- David Suzuki
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity. -- Scott Anderson
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. -- Martin Jacques
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild. -- Peter Singer
Wit is well-bred insolence. -- Aristotle
Lust-bred diseases rot thee. -- John Donne
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway -- George Santayana
Passion is not well bred. -- Jeanette Winterson
Derby born and bred, mate. -- Lauren Socha
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! -- Charlotte Bronte
Well-bred English people never have imagination ... -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort. -- Nicholas Sparks
A dreamer born is a hero bred... -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry -- Moliere
A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. -- Michel de Montaigne
His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. -- John Milton
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. -- Miguel de Cervantes
You don't have the courage of a half-bred mongrel. -- Patricia Briggs
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.-Shekinah -- P. C. Cast
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background. -- Coco Lee
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. -- Julia McNair Wright
I was born and bred to be a great flirt -- Cybill Shepherd
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh. -- Aesop
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is! -- Catullus
I was born and bred to be a great flirt. -- Cybill Shepherd
Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head? -- Gene Wilder
Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred. -- Walter Raleigh
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment. -- Amos Oz
But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred. -- Walt Whitman
Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past -- Prentice Mulford
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality. -- Herman Wouk
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. -- Willa Cather
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others -- Benjamin Franklin
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. -- George Herbert
No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman. -- W. Somerset Maugham
But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is... -- Wes Moore
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can. -- William Cowper
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
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing. -- Plato
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman. -- George Herbert
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. -- George Herbert
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. -- Lord Chesterfield
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! -- Isaac Asimov
The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck. -- Larry Merchant
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. -- Pauline Kael
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? -- William Shakespeare
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. -- William Davenant
The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it. -- William Gurnall
Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to. -- Marcus Aurelius
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. -- William Shakespeare
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. -- Charles Buxton
Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad. -- Jonathan Swift
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter -- Johann Georg Hamann
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it. -- Mark Twain
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. -- Lord Chesterfield
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed. -- Juvenal
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak. -- Ben Jonson
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries. -- Josh Lanyon
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. -- George Santayana
The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. -- Max Muller
Anywhere in the world you hear a Chicago bluesman play, it's a Chicago sound born and bred. -- Ralph Metcalfe
A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice. -- Mark Coleman
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. -- Lucy Hale
I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg. -- Judy Holliday
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man. -- Homer
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example. -- Ben Jonson
It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. -- William Hazlitt
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. -- Willie Stargell
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States. -- Yakubu Gowon
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. -- George C. Marshall
Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge. -- Jim Butcher
We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished. -- Niecy Nash
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. -- Lewis Pugh
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'm English, without a doubt. I will never ever say I'm not English. English born and bred. I'm Turkish, though -- Colin Kazim-Richards
I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie. -- Bobby Gould
Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine. -- George Bancroft
Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
All well bred persons lie â?? Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you thinkâ?¦ -- William Congreve
The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. -- Mary C. Ames
People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition. -- Allan Dare Pearce
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. -- Lady Gregory
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you. -- Ralph Nader
With a chuckle, Jack mumbled under his breath to Nick. 'It's like watching the preppy, well-bred versions of you and me trash-talking. -- Julie James
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

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