Quotes About Behavior

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

le mauvais goût mène au crime (Thaddeus Sholto)

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.