Quotes About Personality

I'm not usually stunned speechless. Call it a character flaw.

He was not sprightly enough to have sprightly friends.

He said he judged people by their characters. I said was that always a quite good way of judging, as people's characters get so different at times, as it depends so much what happens to them.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

One was born a certain sort of person, and though by ceasless struggle one might become as nice as that sort of person ever is, one could never become as nice as a nicer sort of person.

We cannot change the sort of person that we are.

What an idiot she had been to try and make Le Paradis wholly her own. It was of the essence of home that it should hold out its arms to diverse personalities and gather them together into a harmonious whole. A house stamped with one personality only was surely more like the cell of a prisoner condemned to solitary confinement than a home.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!

I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her children, why that man has a dreamy, downcast look. A human being is not a lock and the past is not a key.

My parents were a sight gag. Opposites otherwise, too. One shy but given to monologues, one outgoing and inclined to listen. One with a temper; one affable, sometimes enragingly so. Opposite in every way but their bad habits, which is the secret to a happy marriage and also the makings of a catastrophe.

Cute" is one of those words people use when they know you're smart enough to realize "you've got so much personality" means "you're ugly.

My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.

I don't want to be Caesar Plodding round Britain, [...] Freezing my nuts off in a Scythian midden Hadrian's matching riposte conveyed wit and affability and a side of his personality that he was eager to project: I don't want to be a Florus, Crawling round pubs, Skulking in pie-shops Bitten by bugs.

Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.

Personality disorder? Given the extensive and widespread array of human emotions, why was anything a personality disorder?

Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us. ii

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

temperament as one's unique, God-given (inborn) style of behavior.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Os jovens conhecem cada vez mais o mundo em que estão, mas quase nada sobre o mundo que são. No máximo conhecem a sala de visitas da sua própria personalidade. Quer pior solidão do que esta? O ser humano é um estranho para si mesmo!

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.