Quotes About Behavior

Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.

I don't stalk handsome actors online. That would be inappropriate.

The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view.

I forgot that little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has someday to cry aloud on the housetops.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime

Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.

Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then

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. 

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?  They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals