Quotes About Personality

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

But one does not marry a set of virtues and talents; one marries an individual human being.

Le style c'est I'homme. No doubt. But the converse is also partly true. L'homme c'est le style. Because we have a gift for writing in a certain way, we find ourselves, in some sort, becoming our way of writing. We mould ourselves in the likeness of our particular brand of eloquence.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

Un giorno, che eravamo seduti in un parco, mi spiegò che tutti abbiamo una certa idea di noi stessi, magari appena abbozzata, confusa, ma alla fine siamo portati ad avere una certa idea di noi stessi, e la verità è che spesso quell'idea la facciamo coincidere con un certo personaggio immaginario in cui ci riconosciamo.

It wasn't easy to develop a healthy personality when the canals of your flagellate chambers were held in common with an invaginated mother, incestuous sisters and a bisexual father. When the only anatomical features on which you could construct an identity were the gastral cavity and the aperture of your osculum. The tragedy of being a vegetable was that you couldn't commit suicide. The advantage of being a sponge was that you could drown your sorrows.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

She's sociopathic. She will have no moral compunction in doing whatever is in her interests. It's as simple as that.

These sociopaths,' he said. 'What do they feel like? Inside?' Isabel smiled. 'Unmoved,' she said. 'They feel unmoved. Look at a cat when it does something wrong. It looks quite unmoved. Cats are sociopaths, you see. It's their natural state.

There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni.

You can't do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart.

I cannot see myself in a new car. I am a tiny white van person. That is what i want!

Those important brain circuits, the ones that enabled most of us to avoid saying the wrong thing, were simply not there in Martha's case; or fired in the wrong order; or were short-circuiting. In other words, Martha Drummond was an electrical problem. And understanding people as electrical problems undoubtedly helped one to tolerate them.

Who is happier, those who are aware, and doubt, or those who are sure of what they believe in, and have never doubted or questioned it? The answer, she had concluded, was that this had nothing to do with happiness, which came upon you like the weather, determined by your personlaity.

If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.

Jamie said he thought that people who had nothing to prove were usually charming in their dealings with others. "Only the insecure are nasty," he said.

But sometimes cats just have nasty natures, don't you think? And you can't do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart.

Unlearned language?" "There's a technical term for it," she said. "Xenoglossy. It's the ability to speak a language you've never learned. Some people appear to do so under hypnosis; they're put into a trance and they start talking as another personality. It's regression.

She is gently manic, in a pottering sort of way.

You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.