Quotes About Behavior

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.