ProverbWisdomLatin originc. 1290

What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh

Meaning: Inborn character traits and inherited nature inevitably reveal themselves outwardly, no matter how concealed.

Origin: An old proverb that inborn character cannot be hidden forever. It was recorded in Latin in England around 1290, and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1470) has Launcelot say that it is hard to take out of the flesh what is bred in the bone.

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