Quotes About Behavior

Elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior: at figura quae vastior? De bestiis loquor: quid, inter ipsos homines nonne et simillimis formis dispares mores et moribus simillimis figura dissimilis? (1.97 De Natura Deorum)

If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

You can't help what you feel, Moira said once, but you can help how you behave.

Giving up was the new normal, and I have to say it was catching.

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

A language is everything you do.

What is it about winter that causes people to drive as if their hands are feet?

To be a man, watched by women. It must be entirely strange. To have them watching him all the time. To have them wondering, What's he going to do next?

if you want people to leave you alone you should act crazy.

Something about a bunch of trees made people think they could cut loose. "Wherever there's Nature, there's assholes," he said cheerfully.

The difference between a civilized man and a barbarous fiend—a madman, say - Lies, perhaps, Merely in a thin veneer of willed self-restraint.

I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then.

Su madre aprovechó para decir que el problema con las personas de otra cultura era que nunca sabía uno si estaban locos o no, porque sus pautas de comportamiento eran muy distintas. Los agentes se mostraron de acuerdo con ella, con deferencia pero también con condescendencia, como si fuese una completa imbécil a quien había que complacer.

Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor – people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always – or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumour, and rumours are hard to pin down.

Girls of that age can be quite sadistic.

When actions do not square with words, trust the actions. Choose what you see people do, not what you imagine they would like to do.

Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled.   On

Al igual que la mayor parte de especies, de aves a mamíferos, somos territoriales, pero también somos seres sensibles y tenemos capacidad de decisión, de escuchar a la mejor parte de nuestra naturaleza o a la peor. Hemos creado culturas que establecen

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

He wasn't a gentleman and there was no telling what men would do when they weren't gentlemen. There was no standard to judge them by.

It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly.