Quotes About Character

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

El plan de salvación no ofrece a los creyentes una vida libre de sufrimientos y pruebas antes de llegar al Reino; por el contrario, les pide que sigan a Cristo en la misma senda de abnegación y vituperio. [...] Por medio de estas pruebas y persecuciones, el carácter de Cristo se reproduce y se revela en su pueblo. [...] Nuestra participación en los sufrimientos de Cristo nos educa y disciplina, y nos prepara para compartir la gloria del mundo venidero" (CBA 6:565).

You love your children. It's your one redeeming quality; that and your cheekbones.

Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

Si no tiene nada que temer, un cobarde no se distingue en nada de un valiente. Y todos cumplimos con nuestro deber cuando no nos cuesta nada.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

You never knew Lyanna as well as I did Robert, you saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath

A ruler needs a good head and a true heart," she famously told the king. "A cock is not essential.

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil.

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

Is he blind, or merely stupid?" "He is honorable. Sometimes it amounts to the same thing.

Better a beggar than a thief.