Quotes About Personality

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

I know my girlfriend is free-spirited. I know she's so charming that it's disarming. I get it. And I know that every man is going to fall in love with her.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Don't write about Man; write about a man.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character.

I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally charming, someone would have stabbed you by now.

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.