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Behavior

Quotations on Behavior

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt to people whom we personally dislike.

Murder is always a mistake … One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

He has one of those terrible weak natures that are not susceptible to influence.

… there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

… I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unreasonable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

… my duty is a thing I never do, on principle.

… a typical Englishman, always dull and usually violent.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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