The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

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

I don’t do any vulgar movements.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

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

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

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

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

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

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.‘

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

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.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

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.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, ‚I’m not interested,‘ or you’re unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don’t understand that, and I think it’s rude. You’re at Grandma’s house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

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

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

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

My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.