Quotes About Behavior

George Bernard Shaw

PICKERING:Excuse the straight question, Higgins. Are you a man of good character where women are concerned? HIGGINS [moodily]:Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible

It's all right, then. He's not going to act up to his principles.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Å' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÅ'tt úrinÅ' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÅ'vel.

Instead of warning pregnant women not to drink,I think female alcoholics ought to be told not to fuck

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.