Quotes About Behavior

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Example has more followers than reason.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.

States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters.