Quotes About Behavior

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

There is nothing worse than a bad woman, and nothing better in any way than a good one.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

Vigorous public ball scratching is common in the combat-arms side of the Marine Corps, even among high-level officers in the midst of briefings.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So they were asked to leave.

Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a man highly developed; the rest simply isn't there.

There are two distinct kinds of meanness - those which come of loving money and of disliking it. Mine was the latter sort.

Thus we see that the diffusion of innovations is a social process, even more than a technical matter.

More effective communication occurs when two or more individuals are homophilous.III When they share common meanings, a mutual subcultural language, and are alike in personal and social characteristics, the communication of new ideas is likely to have greater effects in terms of knowledge gain, attitude formation and change, and overt behavior change.

I won't kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can't get rid of habits.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Action is Character.

We all must try to be good.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

They conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park.

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

She is by no means a model character.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, (P. 1)

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. ... Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.