Quotes About Behavior

It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur à voir.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You

Toda a nobreza logo começa a refinar os traços de um homem; toda mesquinharia ou sensualidade, a embrutecê-los

Det mesta som betraktas som gott är jag innerligt övertygad om är dåligt, och finns det något jag ångrar är det med största sannolikhet mitt goda uppförande.

A maior parte das coisas que meus semelhantes consideram boas, creio no fundo da alma que são más, e se de alguma coisa me arrependo é provável que seja do meu bom comportamento. Que diabo se apossou de mim para que me comportasse tão bem?

The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

La política que propugne dependerá de la postura particular que se adopte en cada momento. Porque cada cual es unas veces el Dr. Jekyll y otras Mr. Hyde.

When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them— I really like them. They're quite my element.

But if he isn't a gentleman — What is he? He's a horror.

Great statesmen oughtn't to waltz.

When I'm bad I am bad !

But for a nice girl you do attract the most unnatural people.

This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion's inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercourse a kind of silver tissue of decorum. It

You see, I believe greatly in the influence of women. Living with women helps to make a man a gentleman. (Chapter 7)

No adult would have done what Bobby did -- but a child is of a different species. By adult standards, a child is not wholly sane.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.