Quotes About Behavior

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Beware of a man with manners.

Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.