Behavior Quote by Jane Austen

“I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But then, I would rather be mocked for doing a good thing than to be respected, knowing I have done wrong.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences,…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater…

— José Saramago

“I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.”

— Jane Austen

“I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Indeed, as I made my critique, the problem seemed to me not that there are differences but rather how we value these differences.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him…

— Mark Twain

“Do yourself a favour never compare yourself to others because comparison swallows your God given gift.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school…

— Ruta Sepetys

“He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined...”

— Walter Pater

“But it is my believed that one gets back what he puts out. The only way to truly earn regard is to conduct oneself…

— Rachel Harris