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Letter "W" » well-bred
«Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
bred, graceful, intelligent, pretty, Pretty Woman, well-bred, wherefore
«The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Self-development,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
at the best, bred, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, had best, other, Other People, people, peopled, themselves, The WELL, well-bred, well, welled, wise, wised, wise up
«No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
bred, cynical, well-bred
«He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
bred, breeding, ill-bred, ill-breeding, ill, well-bred
«None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, acknowledges, bred, confess, error, fault, The WELL, well-bred
«Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Instinct,
Reason
| Keywords:
bred, halfway, meets, well-bred
«Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.»
«For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
agriculture, bred, delightful, gainful, pleasing, professions, well-bred
«There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
bred, distemper, distempered, distempers, headache, leprosy, namely, peremptorily, sciatica, well-bred
«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.»
Author: William Congreve
| Keywords:
well-bred
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