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Quotes About Personality

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
~ Ruth Rendell
I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
~ Celine Dion
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
~ Publilius Syrus
We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
~ Carroll Quigley
I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.
~ James Norton
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.
~ May Sarton
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for hero worship is the truest index of a man's private nature.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.
~ Leon Surmelian
I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.
~ Bernhard Langer
What persons are by starts they are by nature.
~ Laurence Sterne
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
~ Josh Billings
Every name is real. That's the nature of names.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
~ Daisy Ashford
On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
~ Karl Kraus
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
~ Bernard Malamud
I'm insatiably curious about human nature.
~ Susan Cain
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Beauty without a character is a waste.
~ Luffina Lourduraj
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~ A cat is a cat.
Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.
~ Anne Bishop