Quotes About Behavior

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: 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 behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

Kitty has no discretion in her coughs, said her father; she times them ill.

No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!

But that woman is a fool indeed who, while insulted by accusation, can be worked on by compliments.

Heavens! let me not suppose that she dares go about Emma Woodhouse-ing me! But, upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness of that woman's tongue!

I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certain silly things cease to be silly if done by sensible people in an imprudent way.

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.

There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

La arrogancia y el orgullo son cosas muy distintas, aunque a menudo se tomen como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser arrogante. El orgullo se refiere màs a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

disposition

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do

had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!

Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.

The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

Ella sentía que podía confiar mucho más en la sinceridad de aquellos que en alguna ocasión podían decir alguna cosa descuidada o alguna ligereza, que en aquellos cuya presencia de ánimo jamás sufría alteraciones, cuya lengua jamás se deslizaba.

he eyed him with a curiosity which seemed to say, that he only wanted to know him to be rich, to be equally civil to him.

he sometimes took out a gun, but never killed; quite the gentleman.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...

Certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

my dear Sir Thomas! interrupted Mrs. Norris