Quotes About Behavior

Douglas Mock has assembled the animal behavioural evidence in More than Kin and Less than Kind.6 In the Galapagos Islands young fur seals attack their newborn siblings, seizing them by the throat and tossing them into the air, killing them unless the mother seal intervenes.

You kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boots. I only thank God you draw the line at swearing - it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

I see. Yes, you kill, you lie, you rob, you hit old men and steal their boats. I only thanks the gods you draw the line at swearing — it would have been just too dreadful otherwise.

In Swindon, if you pick your nose in public, they lock you in the can.

I was rude, unfeeling and brutally confrontational. Basically, I just imagined I was you. - Albert, to Scarlett

You're a girl," Lockwood called. "Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?" "To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall." "Oh, it's much the same thing. Besides, flailing about with rapiers is basically all George and I are good at.

Okay...' I hurried on. 'But why me?' 'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?' 'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.' 'Oh, it's much the same thing.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

If we sound like a couple of callous assholes, it's because that's how we were raised.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.

There is little you can do about the annoying speech mannerisms of others, but there is a lot you can do about your own.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

No child will ever accept a maxim that is preached but not followed by the preacher. It is a waste of breath for the father to order his Sons to keep their temper, to behave like gentlemen, or to be good sportsmen, if he does or is himself none of these things.

If children see temper uncontrolled, hear gossip, uncharitableness and suspicion of neighbors, witness arrogant sharp-dealing or lax honor, their own characters can scarcely escape perversion. In the same way others can not easily fail to be thoroughbred who have never seen or heard their parents do or say an ignoble thing.

Sometimes I'm real cool, but sometimes I could be a real asshole. I think everyone is like that.

If you were anyone else, I'd tell you it's unbecoming to gloat." But you'd tell me..." That even gloating becomes you. It's a sad thing, an intelligent woman in love.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

Yes, I have patterns of love addiction. But I'm a woman. Of course I do.