Quotes About Character

Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Let me be big in little things...

There is wonderful meaning in the common every-day happenings, the little things that come up in the daily routine, which most of us lose sight of, and that is, the opportunity they give for character building, for mental training, for the object of all of life's endeavor — man-building and woman-building. Your name and face may never appear in the newspapers or magazines, but every day you have an opportunity to live a beautiful life, a helpful life.

A little thing that don't cost nothing, and it's just the little things that makes a man to be looked up to and liked.

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

There is no study of human nature more interesting than the aspects of the same subject seen in the points of view of different characters. One might almost imagine that there were no such thing as absolute truth, since a change of situation or temperament is capable of changing the whole force of an argument.

Gratitude is the mother of the virtues.

Every man is the son of his actions.

A man can fool you with his mind, and his Soul and his Heart, but if you follow his feet you will pretty near find out where he is going.

Do not be wise in words — be wise in deeds.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

What that shows on the outside speaks volumes of the inside.

Ko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

Nije vrijeme došlo da ginemo, nego da se vidi ko je kakav.

He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.

Nisu svi ljudi tako r?avi kao što to r?av ?ovek misli.

vrline jednog ?ovjeka mi primamo i cijenimo potpuno samo ako nam se ukazuju u obliku koji odgovara našim shva?anjima i sklonostima.

Tko obrazom pla?a ono što ste?e, taj je r?av trgovac.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.