Quotes About Character

One does not have to be a priest to be a man!

The true test of character is ... how we behave when we don't know what to do.

A good man never dies.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

Are you good men and true?

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

Like father, like son.

The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of the victim's cheque books.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.

He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.