Public Behavior Quotes

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

When somebody abuses in public, we don't pay attention.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

You should put on the best version of yourself when you go out in the world because that is a show of respect to the other people around you.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Are there any limitations? Are they going to allow fornication in Times Square at high noon?

It's a two-way street: breastfeeding women should never be embarrassed by staff asking them to stop, and most mums will recognise the need to be discreet in certain limited circumstances.

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

I am not the kind of person who shouts out.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!'

The 'reality' shows on television, the Internet, these things have encouraged people to behave with less and less restraint. We are broadcasting our emotions in public in a way that has never happened before.

I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.

When the movie's on, I usually watch more of the audience.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.