behavioral norms Quotes

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

Manners form the great charm of women.

It is more offensive to outshine in dignity than in personal attractions.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.