Quotes About Character

Honesty is a very expensive gift; don't expect it from cheap people.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

My name is now Christian; but my name at the first was Graceless.

Among the eulogies raised to the departed general, the terse words of his friend Whitelaw Reid seemed to summarize most perceptively the mercurial Sherman: "He never acknowledged an error and never repeated it.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

I will here venture upon a little description of him. He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. His face was deeply brown and burnt, making his white teeth dazzling by the contrast; while in the deep shadows of his eyes floated some reminiscences that did not seem to give him much joy.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

Alle tragischen Männer gewinnen ihre Größe durch etwas Krankhaftes in ihnen.

Nous n'aborderons pas ici le thème de toutes les singularités de Queequeg, nous passerons sous silence sa manière de s'abstenir de café et

Queequeg, nous passerons sous silence sa manière

Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says he's queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer—queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the time—queer, sir—queer, queer, very queer.

Starbuck was an honest, upright man; but out of Starbuck's heart, at that instant when he saw the muskets, there strangely evolved an evil thought; but so blent with its neutral or good accompaniments that for the instant he hardly knew it for itself.

Quiqueg era como George Washington desarrollado a lo caníbal.

it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

Takže mladíku, musím tÄ› jednou provždy ujistit, že je lepÅ¡í plavit se pod kapitánem zasmuÅ¡ilým, ale dobrým, než usmÄ›vavým a Å¡patným.

My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste-- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

Pug thought, that in a trivial way was like the President's. Some people had it, some didn't. He himself had none of it. In the Navy the quality was not overly admired. The name for it was "grease." Men who possessed it had a way of climbing fast; they also had a way of relying upon it, till they got too greasy and slipped.