Quotes About Personality

If you absolutely had to have sex with one of the Three Stooges, who would it be?

Personality is a slot machine, and the cherries, lemons, and bells are your SSRI system, your schizophrenic tendency, your left/right brain lobalization, your anxiety proclivity, your wiring glitches, your place on the autistic and OCD spectrums - and to these we must add the deep-level influences of the machines and systems of intelligence that guided your brain into maturity.

She's more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.""We all have our flaws," said Pendergast.

You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.

Somewhere inside I always knew that everything was one—that I was eternal, unborn, undying, and uncreated. I understood that my essential nature was not limited by or confined to my personality structure or the body I seemed to be inhabiting. There had been a dissolving, in a somewhat radical way, of the world as I had known it and of the self I had known myself to be.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.

Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle appealing manner- Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is the more dangerous.

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.

Height, five feet four inches, egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, eyes that shone green when he was excited, stiff military moustache, air of dignity immense!

Mr. Hastings—you are always so kind, and you know such a lot." It struck me at this moment that Cynthia was really a very charming girl! Much more charming than Mary, who never said things of that kind.

Miss Marple is a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner—Miss Wetherby is a mixture of vinegar and gush. Of the two Miss Marple is much the more dangerous.

The psychology of character is interesting,

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

I'm always getting forgotten," said the grizzled doctor sadly. "I must have a very inconspicuous personality.

Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide. A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.