Quotes About Behavior

you lot would rather watch someone suffer untold horrors than watch them enjoy so much as a cool drink if you don't have two of your own, and yours have cherries in them as well as more ice and little paper umbrellas, and even then most of you would still prefer to take theirs and have three. This is not the behavior of a sentient race. It is the behavior of wild animals.

One doesn't behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.

If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.

He'll never be good if he can't choose to be nasty. It's the choice that makes the good.

You can't stop people being assholes. They do love it so. The best you can hope for is that some people, sometimes, will turn out to be somewhat less than the absolute worst. When they manage to trip and fall over that incredibly low bar, they'll make you want to end it all. But when they leap over it, they'll make you believe this whole mess really was created for a reason—the bastards.

Don't meddle in Politicks with your mouth full, dear," said the Vicereine gently.

Boundaries for good behaviour are essential for all children; as well as socializing the child they show them that the parent cares, whatever syndrome or condition the child may have. I knew Reva had developed some strategies

A billionaire Swiss friend had put it wonderfully when he said that having money merely emphasized what you were all along. If you were a poor son of a bitch, you'd turn into an even worse son of a bitch with money. But if you were fundamentally decent, then you'd stay that way - simply with a nicer bank balance

these games as a way to study model societies and social interactions.

It's like being ghosted, I suppose, where, deprived of all social cues, I have no relational gauge for my own behavior. I ransack my mind for what I could have done, could have said. I stop trusting what I see, what I hear.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

Por las uñas de un hombre, por las mangas de su abrigo, por sus botas, por las rodillas de sus pantalones, por los callos de su dedo índice y pulgar, por su expresión, por los puños de su camisa, por sus movimientos, por cada una de estas cosas la vocación de un hombre queda claramente revelada. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Estudio en escarlata

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks ariseAround; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviorOf silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-wavierMeal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

Believe the Word, speak the Word, and act on the Word — it is a creative force. The Word is a double-edged sword. Often it places a demand on you to change attitudes and behaviors toward the person for whom you are praying.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

E' curioso a vedere che quasi tutti gli uomini che valgono molto hanno le maniere semplici; e che quasi sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco valore.

Cómo se permite usted, más bien, sostener aún que existen niños malos? Póngase de rodillas y pida perdón.

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

gli uomini cercano le brave ragazze che facciano le cattive solo per loro; le donne cercano i cattivi ragazzi che facciano i bravi soltanto per loro. Io i cattivi ragazzi, i presunti duri, li ho sempre trovati noiosi e patetici.

There is a hint of hypocrisy about a cricketer who affects to let his bat do the talking, then in the next breath has his talk do the baiting.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

There is no influence like the influence of habit.