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Quotes About Personality

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
~ Elmer G. Letterman
when you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute.
~ Elmore Leonard
I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.
~ Eloisa James
They were looking for lovable women. Stella would be the first to admit that she failed on that front. She was too awkward, too outspoken, too argumentative. Too peculiar.
~ Eloisa James
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
And that was the moment my mother turned up, in character as a raving sociopath.
~ Elton John
It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
~ Elvis Presley
Upbringing, education and environment are influential on one's personality i.e. they do play essential role in building up one's/your personality. So, never take them for granted.
~ Emeasoba George
Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.
~ Emile Peynaud
Style isn't what you have---it's what you do with what you have.
~ Emilie Barnes
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~ Emily Dickinson
No two characters could, indeed, be found more opposite than the open, eager, buoyant poet, and the dark, threatening, unbelieving critic.
~ bagehot walter xiv
The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it.... The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.
~ baldwin james viii
There are those whose character is like a chestnut without a kernel.
~ balzac honore de xix
The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.
~ balzac honore de xix
Akira often gets mad at me because he thinks I'm too nice to strangers, and cold as a fish at home. What can I do? He's right, but that's the way I am. I'm more enthusiastic about people I've just met, whom I barely know at all, than with old friends. Before the awkwardness of a new acquaintance has worn off, I'm ready to offer myself up to that person.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
El hambre nocturna es un espíritu maligno que actúa independientemente de la personalidad de cada uno.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Es war mir unmöglich, die wahre Bedeutung dieser Melancholie zu begreifen, die seine Persönlichkeit prägte und deren Schattenspiel mich faszinierte.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Don't you find that it … hurts, not letting even half of your emotions out? I see you've overcome your hatred for your parents with that easygoing love you were born with. And in the process you started thinking about things, and you ended up taking on this docile personality - but aren't you really more spirited and free, more spoiled, and extremely into sex?
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquier que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Es decir, que por fin habían aflorado los colores de mi personalidad, como le suele ocurrir a cualquiera que ha estado sometido durante mucho tiempo a cierta formación
~ Banana Yoshimoto
An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality.
~ banks iain m iii
personality to match. He had an opinion about everything that went on in her house, from where she kept the tea bags to Billy's spelling tests to why she didn't buy out Aidan and run the bar herself. And to make matters worse, he had a better social life
~ Barbara Bretton
Let's just say that an introverted romantic with a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder does not make the best pastor.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor