Quotes About Personality

He is fair of face and foul of heart.

Our clothes make us different people. I would sooner be flesh and blood than silks and jewels,

Jaime," she said, tugging on his ear, "sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna's breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg, and there's some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak . . . but Tyrion is Tywin's son, not you.

The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor. And those are his good points.

Obara, rusted nails and boiled leather, with her angry, close-set eyes and rat-brown hair. Nymeria, languid, elegant, olive-skinned, her long black braid bound up in red-gold wire. Tyene, blue-eyed and blond, a child-woman with her soft hands and little giggles

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

It had a tremendously wide head with golden eyes and a sulky, pouting mouth.

Otra cosa que no se nota cuando se es joven es que las flores tienen personalidad. Son distintas unas de otras, como las personas.

If you have a hat -

I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read them.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

Character is simply habit long enough continued.