Quotes About Personality

Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down—from high flat temples—in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan.

Just you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

he was a roly-poly elderly man with a stoop and a waddle—

Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are!

Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.

In some other state, a person might say to himself, I believe I shall pose as Superman by the side of the road! But in Florida, that person is also going to say, But first, I shall remove my pants!

my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

My feeling is, if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.

The narcissist could not feel empathy toward others. Which meant that the lives of others held no value to a narcissist. Killing could even be like a hit of fentanyl: instant euphoria from the domination and destruction of another. That was why virtually every serial murderer was also a narcissist.

It had forced him into being a different person, as though a stranger's personality and attendant quirks had been superimposed over his own. But now the stranger's footprint was Decker. I am now the stranger. I'm a stranger in my own body.

A child's permanent personality is substantially formed by age six.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

I'm nice—friendly, even—but I am a maniac who simply enjoys the fruits of acting normal.

Behold the Drojim Palace, King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, the hereditary home of the House of Urga. A most unusual structure, You Majesty, Sadi murmured. That's a diplomatic way to put it. Urgit looked critically at his palace. It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

You're impossible, she told him. Of course I am, he answered. It's part of my charm.

won't be them; it will be me.

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are.

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It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are. The

Credo di sembrare un tipo normale, forse persino simpatico, anche se mi hanno consigliato di apparire il più normale possibile, e di non provare nemmeno a fare quella che a me parrebbe un'espressione simpatica o un sorriso.

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners…I want my children to be people– each one separate– each one special– each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates.

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palentine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-cap'ring. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.