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Quotes About Personality

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.
~ E. Lockhart
He is bounce, effort and snark.
~ E. Lockhart
I think I want a guy who eats vegetables. And who isn't so normal. He was just a muffin, you know?
~ E. Lockhart
Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
~ E. Lockhart
There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  
~ E.M. Forster
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
~ E.M. Forster
And in time there will come a generation that has got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free from taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.
~ E.M. Forster
But in public who shall express the unseen adequately? It is private life that holds out the mirror to infinity; personal intercourse, and that alone, that ever hints at a personality beyond our daily vision.
~ E.M. Forster
In other words, they belong to types that could fall in love, but couldn't live together.
~ E.M. Forster
Appearing thus late in the story, Cecil must be at once described. He was medieval. Like a Gothic statue.
~ E.M. Forster
The abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love
~ E.M. Forster
Once a cad, always a cad
~ E.M. Forster
That Mrs. Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care. In theory she despised them — they took away that old-world look — they cut off the sun — flats house a flashy type of person.
~ E.M. Forster
Tibby, for all his defects, had a genuine personality.
~ E.M. Forster
Even when we love people, we desire to keep some corner secret from them, however small: it is a human right: it is personality
~ E.M. Forster
Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.
~ Earl Lee
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
~ Earl of Chesterfield
And yet what a man is speaks louder than what he does.
~ Ed Hindson
Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
a designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes
~ Edith Head
If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.
~ Edith Schaeffer
A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
~ Edmond Rostand
He was a small, stringy man of about fifty, with immense horn-rimmed spectacles, a long, sharp nose, and an unusual capacity for garrulous incoherence.
~ Edmund Crispin