Behave Badly Quotes

#1. Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

William J. Clinton

#2. People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Dylan McDermott

#3. The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

Albert Camus

#4. The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.

Margaret Sartor

#5. I always think that, even when people behave badly, if you like something deep inside them, then there is a tiny bit of nobility - they wish they could be good.

Steve Coogan

#6. Any time there is a lot of money or ego involved, people tend to behave badly.

Brad Grey

#7. And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

Julian Barnes

#8. When you made tons of money, had a beautiful wife and three adorable kids-when you were the envy of your community and coworkers-you had no right to behave badly. Stop whining, chin up, take Prozac, and pretend your pain isn't ravaging your soul.

C.S. Lakin

#9. It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

Roald Dahl

#10. I reserve my right to choices, too, and I choose to behave badly.

Kirsty Eagar

#11. When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.

C.S. Lewis

#12. All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

Claire Tomalin

#13. Everyone given the right opportunity will behave badly.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

Laura Wade

#15. I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

Noah Baumbach

#16. Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

Linwood Barclay

#17. It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Minette Walters

#18. There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.

Joanna Lumley

#19. There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Albert Camus

#20. I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it.

Greta Gerwig

#21. I'm always astonished to see how badly people can behave when they think no one is noticing.

Diane Mott Davidson

#22. There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

Philip Pullman

#23. In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

Kenneth Clark

#24. The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

Philip Roth

#25. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#26. You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!

Josh Hartnett

#27. We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

Iyanla Vanzant

#28. I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

Claire Tomalin

#29. I am the bookkeeper, after all, and as a rule the numbers don't behave too badly.

Lorraine Heath

#30. I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction. I have known a great many different sorts of people in different situations, and I have a notion how very well of badly people can behave in times of stress or danger or violence.

Marge Piercy

#31. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Lew Wallace

#32. It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Nick Hornby

#33. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.

Michael Crichton