Quotes About Behavior

You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.

Madame, the most kind, the most amiable are not always the cleverest.

A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he'll commit another

What was the point of all the odd questions he was continually shooting at her, Iris? Wasn't there something very queer about George lately? The odd fuddled look he had in the evenings! Lucilla attributed it to a glass or so too much of port. Lucilla would! No, there was something queer about George lately. He seemed to be labouring under a mixture of excitement interlarded with great spaces of complete apathy when he sunk in a coma.

Men are like that... They remain boys...

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said dryly: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

We Russians, on the contrary, practise prodigality,' she said.

The woman's at a certain time of life—craving for sensation, unbalanced, unreliable—might say anything. They do, you know!

I remember my dear mother teaching me that a gentlewoman should always be able to control herself in public, however much she may give way in private.

A man in drink can be like a ravening wolf.

People who go about talking of what they are going to do don't usually do that.

That child, said Sophia, is a bit of a problem.

Lady Veronica was not an unknown hazard. She was a charming woman [..] and very delightful when she was, as they put it herself - but unfortunately at unpredictable intervals, she was not herself. Her husband, Major Carlton-Sandways coped fairly well.

Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law.

Mas nós não somos selvagens! Somos civilizados hoje em dia. - Há diferentes tipos de civilizações... - disse Bob vagamente. - Além disso, eu prefiro pensar que todos temos algo de selvageria dentro de nós... Se conseguirmos pensar em uma boa desculpa para deixá-la escapar.

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

Las mujeres no acostumbran a ser crueles con los hombres, a menos de que se trate de uno en particular; solo lo somos con las mujeres.

La natura umana, mia cara, è sempre più o meno la stessa, ovunque. Solo che è più difficile osservarla da vicino in una grande città, tutto qui.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

Chi è molto buono con gli altri sa anche essere molto crudele.

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

Whether they try to hinder or to help, they necessarily reveal their type of mind.

Mr. Fortescue's contribution to the ritual was a grunt.

Young women do not faint nowadays, monsieur, without considerable provocation.