Quotes about Behavior

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you [Colonel Pickering], because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Tulajdonképpen nem abban van a különbség, hogy az ember hogy viselkedik, hanem hogy az emberrel hogyan viselkednek. Én Higgins professzor úr számára mindig csak egy virágoslány maradok, mert Ã…' mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy virágoslánnyal. De maga elÃ…'tt úrinÃ…' lehetek, mert maga mindig úgy fog viselkedni velem, mint egy úrinÃ…'vel.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Our deeds determine us, as long as we determine our deeds

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.

When events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof that his conduct has been less foolish and blameworthy than it might otherwise have appeared? When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune .

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.