A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‚death by cupcake.‘

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

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Becoming a ‚Sir‘ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I’m crepuscular.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Action is character.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.