"Ill-bred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Vulgar, ill-bred, lower class people," she calls them. "Objectionable to contemplate from every point of view. But a book which should enlighten the class whom it describes on the subject of their own bad ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... you are a very ill-bred young man to have saluted me," she said in French. "But I think I have seen ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... sign of what one might call a philosophically ill-bred nature. It is the indecent "gratitude" of the pig over his trough. It is the little yellow eye of sanctified bliss turned up to the God who "must be in His Heaven" if we are so privileged. This "never doubting good will triumph" is really, when one examines ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... associated with unusual cheerfulness, and thus the imagination, and the reality, conspire to make them epicures. To these children, the temptations to deceive about sweetmeats and dainties are beyond measure great, especially as ill-bred strangers commonly show their affection for them by pressing them to eat what they are not allowed to say "if you please" to. Rousseau thinks all children are gluttons. All children may be rendered gluttons; but few, who are properly treated with respect to food, and who have ...
— Practical Education, Volume I • Maria Edgeworth
... chance to kill him, that Gorka—to wound him, at least. In any case, I will arrange it so that a second duel will be rendered difficult to that lunatic.... But, first of all, let us make sure that we have not spoken too loudly and that they have not heard upstairs the ill-bred fellow's loud voice." ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget
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