Quotes About Behavior

If you're yelling and calling names, your kid thinks, 'If I get in a disagreement, the way to resolve it is to speak more forcefully, more loudly, and to say harsher things to get my way.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

For action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner. (Elizabeth Bennett)

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

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

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. -Edward Ferrars

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

I do not cough for my own amusement.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

Manners is what holds a society together. At bottom, propriety is concern for other people. When that goes out the window, the gates of hell are shortly opened and ignorance is King.

That loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable-- that one false step involves her in endless ruin-- that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful-- and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex. ~Mary Bennett, P&P

We neither of us perform to strangers.

She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.