Quotes About Behavior

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

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

Neurons that fire together wire together.

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.

Miss Daisy Morrison, behaving so scandalously on her very first public appearance among the beau monde, would not easily be forgiven. But of course a

more annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille

You are despicable, she said, flushing, and you really are no gentleman.

It is applied exclusively to girls. Have you noticed? I know a few wild boys, and people generally think none the worse of them—boys will be boys. I have never heard any of them called hoydens.

His manner with everyone but her was still rather stiff and remote.

I shall surprise you and behave like a perfect gentleman.

You are insufferable, my lord, she seethed. He grinned as he held back her chair while she seated herself. Yes, my lady, I know, he said.

steward, and Matthew Harley chose to be indignant and to take offense at the suggestion that there was something wrong

In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart or -oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.

You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)

Isaac didn't understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another's behavior, and Isaac had no such expectations.

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.