Dogs bark as they are bred. [ Proverb ]

The best bred have the best portion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Drought never bred dearth in England. [ Proverb ]

You were bred in brazen-nose college. [ Proverb ]

Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred. [ Churchill ]

Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. [ William Shakespeare ]

Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is an ill-bred dog that will beat a bitch. [ Proverb ]

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]

A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant. [ Montaigne ]

That which is bred in the bone will never come out in the flesh. [ Proverb ]

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early,
For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. [ Burns ]

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetess, and a Latin-bred woman. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A face with gladness overspread! Soft smiles, by human kindness bred! [ Wordsworth ]

A well-bred dog goes out when he sees them preparing to kick him out. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well bred. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latinbred woman seldom end well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A well-bred youth neither speaks of himself, nor, being spoken to, is silent. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

True gladness doth not always speak; joy bred and born but in the tongue is weak. [ Ben Jonson ]

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished; but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. [ Charles Buxton ]

No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. [ John Ruskin ]

Fame, as a river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off; so exemplary writers depend not upon the gratitude of the world. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company. [ Swift ]

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it pointblank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

"No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips. [ Scott ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

Nor do we accept as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the sentiment of suavity and self-respect. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament. [ Alcott ]