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Quotes About Personality

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
~ Nigel Slater
I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.
~ Paul Giamatti
An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
~ Peter Drucker
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.
~ Publilius Syrus
Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
~ Oriana Fallaci
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The voice is not only indicative of man's character, but it is the expression of his spirit. Other sounds can be louder than the voice, but no sound can be more living.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
~ Henry Miller
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
~ Henry Miller
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.
~ Honore de Balzac
What a man knows isn't important. It's what he is that counts
~ Jack Schaefer
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
~ Jane Austen
A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When Javy Baez goes out there, man, you saw him before the game sitting on the bench, saw him waving into the camera, he's just being himself. I love that.
~ Joe Maddon
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The history of a man is in his character.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The worse the haircut, the better the man.
~ John Green
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
~ Tim Heidecker
I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.
~ Emo Philips