Quotes About Behavior

This entire generation seems to have become pussies, you know? Nobody seems to enjoy themselves much anymore.They are all knocking each other down for enjoying themselves.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.

How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated. Frustrated babies tend to throw food and make a mess. Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy. And frustrated moths tend to bang up against lightbulbs and make light fixtures all dusty.

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.

It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Mr. Poe, who led the way, didn't seem to notice the hedges at all, possibly because he was busy coaching the children on how to behave. 'Now, Klaus, don't ask too many questions right away. Violet, what happened to the ribbon in your hair? I thought you looked very distinguished in it. And somebody please make sure Sunny doesn't bite Dr. Montgomery. That wouldn't be a good first impression.

A wonderful laugh is no excuse for villainous behavior!

It is one thing to think horrible thoughts, but it is another to behave atrociously, as you know. You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.

Mob psychology," Sunny said, remembering a term Klaus had taught her shortly before she took her first steps.

As far as I could tell, people didn't do things because they were good or evil. They did things because they could not think of what else to do

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It is extremely rude, of course, for an audience to talk during a concert performance

Red-breasted robin?" a red-breasted robin might repeat in astonishment. "That's not my name. And why are you focusing on my breast? That's inappropriate.

Frustration is an interesting emotional state, because it tends to bring out the worst in whoever is frustrated. Frustrated babies tend to throw food and make a mess. Frustrated citizens tend to execute kings and queens and make a democracy. And frustrated moths tend to bang up against lightbulbs and make light fixtures all dusty. But unlike babies, citizens, and moths, leeches are quite unpleasant to begin with.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle

rather split his trousers than an infinitive.

Parker had acquired the North American habit of making his demands sound like polite inquiries.

Peter was like that: he had the capacity for cruelty that comes so easily to the self-righteous.

Regardless of whatever "rights" we think we may have, giving the Lord a bad testimony will never be one of them.5

We know how to behave! We've had lessons.

If it weren't for girls, being a gentleman would be super-duper easy.