Source: London Terraefilius, No. 3, p. 29, (1707).
“This is brave Bear-Garden language!”
Jeremy Collier (1650–1726) English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian
See John Ray for explanation of Bear Garden.
Source: A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, p 232. (1698)
“2033. He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.”
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
Source: Instructions to his Son and to Posterity (published 1632), Chapter II
“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”
James Howell (1594–1666) Anglo-Welsh historian and writer
English Proverbs (1659)
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Context: 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.
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master…”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
Interview in The New York Times (28 November 1993).
“About George W. Bush: "He came ill-equipped for the job and has failed to master it."”
Richard Perle (1941) American government official
Notes: newspaper article reporting on Perle's statements at a meeting of the Hudson Institute on May 14, 2007. <br class="br">Source: "Perle Turns on Bush in Harsh Terms", by Nicholas Wapshott, New York Sun, May 15, 2007 http://www.nysun.com/article/54448?page_no=1
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"The Brooklyn Divines." Brooklyn Union (Brooklyn, NY), 1883.
