Social Behaviour Quotes

“[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.
It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.”
― Andrew Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, ζωή στο σκοτάδι

“When you wake up today to realize that the problem is still there, do not go back to sleep and do not cry. Take a warm bath and start planning for the unknown.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“People who do not love animals, I find, are more often than not, beasts of a special kind. At the very least, deep within, to their fellow human beings too they're equally unkind.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“You don't know what you feel, he said sharply. That's what manners are for--to keep things going when one doesn't know.”
― Paula Fox, Poor George

“On the highway of life: 'drive' is about steadily moving forward in your own lane; 'ambition' is about swerving and accelerating into other people's lanes.”
― Rayvern White