Bad Behavior Quotes

“All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.”
― Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

“Why were children the only ones who ever got to melt down?”
― Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“I’m paying,” he says. “And driving. Go nuts.”
I push the drink away. “I’ll behave.”
He waits a beat, licking his lips, before he says, “I wish you wouldn’t.”
― Karina Halle, Smut

“We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it’s hardly foolproof. ‘Good people’ are capable of bad behavior. ‘Bad people’ are capable of good behavior.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Empowered Women 101: The moment you ignore bad behavior, in order to win a person's affection you have not won anything, but a person that has behavioral problems. If you couldn't fix their behavior before you won him, why could you fix him now?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But the statue attracted a middle-aged, brown-haired, overweight White guy. Clearly drunk, he climbed onto the tiny stage and started fondling Buddha before his laughing audience of drunk friends at a nearby table. I had learned a long time ago to tune out the antics of drunk White people doing things that could get a Black person arrested. Harmless White fun is Black lawlessness.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“When you don’t face the consequences, there are consequences for that, too.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“When you say a right or wrong behavior is on a spectrum, you are simply trying to make excuses for bad behavior.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The American Heiress

“If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself all the time, and nobody minds. Heroes are immune. They have wide shoulders and plenty of hair and wherever they go a crowd gathers. Mostly they enjoy the company of other men, although attractive women are part of their reward.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“We tend to learn from bad examples, but we should take care not to use bad examples as a rationalization of our own bad behavior.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“Unethical behavior significantly increases the cost of doing business.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

“Maybe we are entering a new era in which bullying and the intimidation of other people are at last consigned to their rightful place alongside racism, hatemongering, drunk driving, littering, spitting in public, and passing gas at parties.”
― Frank E. Peretti

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our behaviour.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor behaviour.”
― Gill Hornby, Miss Austen

“Sina nyemi na mwanamke mwenye sura nzuri na tabia mbaya. Nina nyemi na mwanamke mwenye sura mbaya na tabia nzuri, au mwanamke mwenye sura nzuri na tabia nzuri. Mwanamke wa kuoa sitampenda nitampendelea.”
― Enock Maregesi

“We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Let’s understand a person’s background, before we condemn their behavior.”
― Eric M. Watterson

“Learning is changing.”
― Richie Norton

“As long you have a reason to do something wrong or bad. You will forever do it.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully.

"You must feel really good about yourself to be the nice guy all the time! But let me tell you something - it takes balls to say what's really on your mind. You might have heard, the best defense is a good offense..."

He went on and on for a while, and the more he spoke the more his intolerant nature became evident. I listened to everything he had to say, then heaved a soft sight, and replied with a smile.

"You are absolutely right! Ama senin gibi şerefsiz olmak insanın lazım yok - porque, no soy un hijo de puta como tú - nu okka chetta na kodakkala behave cheskovachhu, kaani naaku anthaa scene ledu."

He looked rather annoyed, because all my words went over his head, so he flared out, "don't beat around the bush, man - say, what you want to say!"

I spoke calmly. "I'd love to speak my mind, but I wouldn't want to give anyone an inferiority complex. Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are. If bad behavior made the world better, we'd already be living in utopia, instead of still struggling for basic human rights."

I didn't want the argument to linger any longer, so I asked him to join me for lunch. You see, self-regulation is not a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It doesn't take any character for the animal to be animal, but the true test of character is to behave human, upon conquering our inner animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When people show you who they are when angry believe them,”
― gugu innocentia mofokeng

“There's nothing uglier than an ugly mouth, there's nothing filthier than a filthy heart.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who “have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows.” Fancy giving up all that for five shillings a year! It is not worth it.

It is rumoured in the town that once, many years ago, a boy appeared who really never had done these things—or at all events, which was all that was required or could be expected, had never been known to do them—and thus won the crown of glory. He was exhibited for three weeks afterwards in the Town Hall, under a glass case.

What has become of the money since no one knows. They say it is always handed over to the nearest wax-works show.”
― Jerome K. Jerome