Quotes About Behavior

the Starkadders rarely did what was obvious though they were only too embarrassingly ready to do what was natural.

You know how dreadful intelligent people are when you take them to dances.

By this time the Gentle Reader is thinking that people who go to church and sing in the choir should not make love in hayfields.

Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

Charlotte had enough money -- had always had enough money -- that she didn't have to worry about her behavior.

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Kids learn not so much from what they're taught as from what they do.

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it.

May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.

If we choose to behave differently, we are considered 'Mad' or 'immature

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.