Quotes About Character

It was, he felt, a persistent flaw in his wife's otherwise practical and sensible character that she believed, against all evidence, that he was a man of many talents. He knew he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he'd like to see float to the surface. They contained things that should be left to lie.

Nobby would nick anything and dodge anything, but he wasn't bad. You could trust him with your life, although you'd be daft to trust him with a dollar.

Only Granny Weatherwax really knew Granny Weatherwax.

Foul Ole Ron was a physical schizophrenic. There was Foul Ole Ron, and there was the smell of Foul Ole Ron, which had obviously developed over the years to such an extent that it had a distinct personality

In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).

To ther Hed Wizzard, Unsene Universety, Greatings, I hop you ar well, I am sending to you won Escarrina Smith, shee hath thee maekings of wizzardery but whot may be ferther dun wyth hyr I knowe not shee is a gode worker and clene about hyr person allso skilled in diuerse arts of thee howse, I will send Monies wyth hyr May you liv longe and ende youre days in pese, And oblije, Esmerelder Weatherwaxe (Mss) Wytch.

She did nothing, although sometimes when she saw him in the village she'd smile in a faint, puzzled way. After three weeks of this the suspense was too much for him and he took his own life; in fact he took it all the way across the continent, where he became a reformed character and never went home again.

Nanny Ogg scowled and said, Granny never said as she was better than others. She just got on with it and showed 'em and people worked it out for themselves.

Definitely that kind of owner, he thought. Self-made man proud of his handiwork. Confuses bluffness and honesty with merely being rude. I wouldn't mind betting a dollar that he thinks he can tell a man's character by testing the firmness of his handshake and looking deeply into his eyes.

He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon.

People are what they do, and what they leave behind

No one likes a poor thief.

Hats defined the head. They defined who you were.

We don't inherit our parents' sins. Or their virtues.

And let's be honest. Sometimes, Jane, you can be a real bitch. - Agent Gabriel Dean

Let one mold himself in accordance with the precepts he teachers.

As the pot slowly fills up with water, drop by drop, so does the fool, little by little, become evil.

Wise men mold their own character.

Ez a történet nem érte el célját, ha az olvasó nem vette észre, hogy az Å'rnagy fajankó volt.

a despicable human being." Judge

JUSTINE: Is the story supposed to be jumping around like that, from Mary's head, to Diana's, to Beatrice's?

I would not trust too much to Watson's accounts of me,' said Holmes, 'he's liable to exaggerate.' He fired one shot.

You would not lie—you are almost incapable of it. Your disposition would not allow such a thing.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.