Quotes About Behavior

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

Habit is a second nature.

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.

Custom is almost a second nature.

We come to feel as we behave.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.