Social Behavior Quotes

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the less space. He walked as softly as the Ghost in Hamlet, and more slowly. He carried his head on one side, partly in modest depreciation of himself, partly in modest propitiation of everybody else.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.