Quotes About Behavior

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Man governs himself more by impulse than reason

Women are more emotional. They do get flustered. Which is not to say that men are better than they. It's simply the way it is.

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

Tell a man something is bad, and he's not at all sure he wants to give it up. Describe it as stupid, and he knows it's the better part of caution to listen.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.