Quotes About Behavior

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

I carry myself where I speak when spoken to. It's good and bad.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

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

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.