Quotes About Personality

And William laughed with his special blend of mischief, compounded of humor, spite, and sadness in a ratio even he wasn't sure of but that he mixed by feel.

I'm not much to look at, replied Elizabeth, but I'm beautiful inside.

People think they are individuals because they use the word I so often, Patrick commented.

Suicide wore the mask of self-rejection; but in reality nobody took their personality more seriously than the person who was planning to kill himself on its instructions. Nobody was more determined to stay in charge at any cost, to force the most mysterious aspect of life into their own imperious schedule.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

In graduate school, I learned this simple distinction: when people are driving themselves crazy, they have neuroses or psychoses. When they drive other people crazy, they have personality disorders.

All vampires use self-hypnosis to avoid seeing themselves as they really are, but Histrionics are virtuosos of self-deception. Like stage magicians, they divert their own awareness away from the strings and wires that hold their personalities together. They simply do not see anything in themselves that they consider inappropriate or unlovable. Their image of themselves is like a series of attractive still photos, scenes from a movie with no overall plot to hold them together.

Considering themselves is what Narcissists do best. The trait they most conspicuously lack is concern for the needs, thoughts, and feelings of other people.

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.

If I talk about her like she's a being It's because talking about her I need to use the language of men Which gives personality to things, And imposes a name on things.

Quem ama é diferente de quem é. É a mesma pessoa sem ninguém

Se sentía completamente tranquilo, frío; si acaso, un poco triste; era una tristeza misteriosa que consideraba ya inseparable de su carácter.

Things that are understood are not scandalized. Shock - scandal is basically fear. The scandal is, after all, the fear of losing one's personality. In short, the shocked person is uncertain, hence a conformist.

Ogni volta che parliamo di «personalità» - sia maschile che femminile - noi ci riferiamo a una totalità, a un insieme composito di molteplici aspetti. Naturalmente alcuni saranno predominanti e sarà quindi più facile notarli dall'esterno; altri invece saranno più velati, nascosti, ma non per questo non faranno sentire la loro presenza.

Our lumber pile, recruited entirely from the river, is thus not only a collection of personalities, but an anthology of human strivings in upriver farms and forests. The autobiography of an old board is a kind of literature not yet taught on campuses, but any riverbank farm is a library where he who hammers or saws may read at will. Come high water, there is always an accession of new books.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

seguirás siendo alguien muy ridícula, muy melancólica, pintoresca y graciosa durante unos minutos, fatigante y atrozmente aburrida en la convivencia diaria.

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

Maggie felt sorry for her, a woman surrounded by beautiful expensive things, all of them by authentic designers, genuine gold-trims, the best-quality fabrics and woods, rare collector accessories of porcelain and ceramic—nothing artificial except her personality. Maggie

He seemed to be a genuinely kind man—when he wasn't killing. —Helen Morrison, M.D., referring to Ed Gein in her book My Life Among the Serial Killers