everyday behavior Quotes

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

The average person tells a few white lies.

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.

...but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.