Quotes About Social norms

To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

If the Constitution says that marriage is between a man and woman, then things that are inconsistent with that would be inconsistent with the Constitution.

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Der Eindruck, den Effi empfing, war überall derselbe: mittelmäßige Menschen, von meist zweifelhafter Liebenswürdigkeit, die, während sie vorgaben, über Bismarck und die Kronprinzessin zu sprechen, eigentlich nur Effis Toilette musterten, die von einigen als zu prätentios für eine so jugendliche Dame, von andern als zu wenig dezent für eine Dame von gesellschaftlicher Stellung befunden wurde.

How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are all these gaps in speech where you just have to put a fuck.

While a few men seek to justify their existence by assuming the burden of childcare, or material provisioning, the same is not true of many lower creatures, human or otherwise, where the males quite literally just fuck off.

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity.

Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don't play by social norms as much as adults do.

Orlando curtseyed; she complied; she flattered the good man's humours as she would not have done had his neat breeches been a woman's skirts, and his braided coat a woman's satin bodice. Thus, there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them' we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

As for himself, when he went to go to a party, as one was sometimes obliged to, from a wish not to give offence, he walked into the middle of the room, said 'Ha! Ha!' as loud as ever he could, considered he had done his duty, and went home.

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

He tilted her face upward as if he meant to kiss her. Shocked, Maria resisted, glancing toward the people at the table, some of them are smiling, some disapproving, some thoroughly appalled. She looked back at him, doubtful. "Does a gentleman kiss a woman in front of other people?" He tilted her head back. "This one does," he said and captured her lips with his.

Tonight is when the obscene becomes the acceptable.

Jesus. Who does he think he is? He's always out partying and drinking with his friends. I do it once and all of a sudden I'm a candidate for AA.