Quotes About Behavior

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

I should hope, Mr. Poirot, that whatever our feelings, we can keep them in decent control. And we can certainly control our actions.

But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, is not himself-- Then you suspect him? No. That is just what I mean. A man whose mind is evil and whose intentions are evil is conscious of that fact and he knows that he must conceal it all costs. He dare not, therefore, afford any unusual behavior.

A natureza humana está cheia de incongruências.

Human nature is always interesting, Sir Henry. And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way.

Human nature, dear, is very much the same everywhere. It is more difficult to observe it closely in a city, that is all.

An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.

Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.

People bicker so and have such rows. Even if they're fond of each other, they still seem to have rows and not to mind a bit whether they have them in public or not.

Ma come sapete, la natura umana è quella che è..

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

He chews the gum which I believe is not done in good circles.

Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn't.

The psychology of character is interesting,

The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.

What they need," said Griselda, "is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's." And

People are so proud of their wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it?

Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But — it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a Billingsgate fishwoman blush! I

so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly." Mr.