Quotes About Behavior

M. de Charlus made no reply and looked as if he had not heard, which was one of his favourite forms of rudeness.

Car l'instinct d'imitation et l'absence de courage gouvernent les sociétés comme les foules.

As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

I concluded all the same from this first evening that his [Morel's] must be a vile nature, that he would not shrink from any act of servility if the need arose, and was incapable of gratitude. In which he resembled the majority of mankind.

The humanist, who read too much, ate too much. He quoted and burped, and these two complaints were equally repugnant to his neighbor, a self-made aristocrat, Madame Lenoir.

Een warme gezindheid jegens anderen overdrijft het goede even graag, als de kwaadaardigheid er plezier in heeft iemand omlaag te halen.

If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family,- a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

seems that when a person finds himself in extremis and gathers his mind and calls out, something comes awake in the highest regions of destiny. Time behaves differently when blessing is invoked.

Author Evelyn Waugh was a Catholic who fell pretty woefully short of his faith's standards. Somebody asked Waugh one time, "How can you call yourself a Catholic and be so badly behaved, so mean, such a jerk, so spiteful?" Waugh responded, "Just imagine me if I were not a Catholic." And

Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

try to act your age, not your IQ.

We already know what buzzards do when they get mad. They throw up.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. —OSCAR WILDE

Humans talk about 'fight-flight.' Isn't binary, quaternary: fight, flight, bluff, submit. Every human is different pattern for different conditions, but all humans have all four to an extent. ... All human interaction works on those four responses ...

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Lo que creamos o lo que pensemos, al final no tiene mayor importancia. Lo único que realmente importa es lo que hacemos

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

I don't appreciate the suggestion that I'm acting irrationally," he said. "Then don't act irrationally

Always treat other drivers like they are an overenthusiastic extra from the Mad Max movies.