Quotes About Personality

Looks like a cartoon of himself.

She is just a perfect angel, while I am only angelic in spots and demonic in other spots.

Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.

For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. One June evening, when

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.

You don't meet many people who let you practice your self-confidence on them that way. The ones who do are either very weak or very strong.

Always performing who they are instead of being it

Anybody knew that no two men were alike. You could measure cloth with a yardstick, or distance by miles, but you could not lump men together and measure them by any rule. Brains and character did not depend on anything but the man himself. Some men did not have the sense at sixty that some had at sixteen.

I am not a morning person.

What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

Charismatic leaders rely primarily on the power of their own personalities to justify their office. They don't fit well into bureaucratic structures and project an almost 'missionary

In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.

I always complained about my mother's stony heart. Turns out I'm built just the same.

You look like yourself. Nobody else. Trust me, that's a good thing.

How could men who liked cats be bad?

Let me tell you about Tidy. She's smug, self-important, and frankly, just an asshole.

IHAD MET Sherlock Holmes at a time when adolescence and the devastating circumstances of my orphaning had left me with an exterior toughness and an interior that was malleable to the personality of anyone willing to listen to me and take me seriously.

Wasn't it Will Rogers who said he never met a man he didn't like?" "Whoever it was, I'd say he didn't get out much.

He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the giant footprints of the historical memory which lies behind the recollections of individual personality, its mentor and guide: indeed its inventor, since man is only an extension of the spirit of place.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.