Quotes About Personality

He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.

Faleiro was a brilliant but unstable man who impressed his colleagues with his demonic personality;

Identity is destiny.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Every bad person is a little good. And every good person is a little bad.

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

she did not know how to be anything else.

A man's character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

However, maitri is not just being kind and nice. It is the understanding that one has to become one with the situation. That does not particularly mean that one becomes entirely without personality and has to accept whatever the other person suggests. Rather, you have to overcome the barrier that you have formed between yourself and others. If you remove this barrier and open yourself, then automatically real understanding and clarity will develop in your mind.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

The choices we make, make us. We

Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)

Prose writers, by contrast, are unreliable friends: They are always studying you to see if there's anything in your personality or appearance that they can steal for their next narrative.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

What we do flows from who we are.

We have as many personalities as we have friends' Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys, and beef-faced boys.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

Will you never understand that I am incorrigible?

I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.