Quotes About Behavior

Una persona istruita e educata si riconosce subito dal suo modo di fare e di parlare, perciò non c'è bisogno di farne pompa - disse la signora March.

Well, don't make a porcupine of yourself, it isn't becoming.

I see. It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up," said Amy thoughtfully. "These things are always seen and felt in a person's manner and conversations, if modestly used, but it is not necessary to display them," said Mrs. March.

But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I've had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.

No, winking isn't ladylike.

I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

Tienes bastante talento y virtudes, pero no hay que hacer ostentación porque la vanidad estropea el carácter más fino.

But remember, dear, that it is both bad taste and bad economy for poor people to try to ape the rich.

Really, girls, you are both to be blamed," said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. "You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. It didn't matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.

You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways? said Meg reprovingly.

And Maud's face brightened: for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight.

Não faça assim, Jo, é coisa de moleque. ââ'¬â€œÉ por isso mesmo que faço. –Detesto meninas grosseiras e pouco femininas. –Odeio sirigaitas afetadas e cheias de dedos.

While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own shortcomings. It is these people really, said my father, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance.

What he said, what he thought, and what he felt, came from his mother, but what he did came from his father, with the addition of a great caution generated by early unpleasantness.

Breathtakingly generous in his philanthropy, Rockefeller could also be stingy—appallingly so.

He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.

Frank could never curb his compulsive gambling.

No etiquette yet defined civilized behavior between the parties.

By recruiting subordinates who had never worked at Standard Oil, he had a chance for a fresh start, where he could make his behavior, for the first time, as ethical as his rhetoric.

Junior's presence at 26 Broadway further ensured that father would behave more ethically than in the past.

Plot is a chain of cause-and-effect relationships that constantly create a pattern of unified action and behavior. Plot involves the reader in the game of "Why?

industry that spends $36 billion a year on marketing messages precisely to persuade us to eat more, and eat at different times, eat in the car, eat in front of television, and eat highly processed foods

For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.

ramp, it's one of the social graces.