Quotes About Character

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

In a calm and even situation, Thenardier possessed all that is required to make—we will not say to be—what people have agreed to call an honest trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.

The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.

Ma non basta essere cattivi, per prosperare.

Jamais entre os animais a criatura nascida para ser pomba converte-se em abutre. Isso só se vê entre os homens.

After a pause he added: My friends remember this:There is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man.There are only bad cultivators.

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

Come si chiamano i vostri due amici? – Pietro il Grassatore e Battista Gabbagonzi. – Uhm! - fe' l'arcidiacono; - son nomi che si addicono a un'opera buona come una bombarda ad un altar maggiore.

My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Era un individuo sulla sessantina, con una faccia da uomo d'affari e un'aria da briccone: due cose che spesso vanno insieme.

Jean Valjean had this peculiarity, that he carried, as one might say, two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the other, according to circumstances.

Za svakoga od nas ima izvesnih paralelnosti izme?u našeg obrazovanja, naših obi?aja i našeg karaktera, koji stalno napreduju i prekidaju se jedino usled velikih promjena u životu.

He saw her beauty...but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices

She had to believe there was grit in her, even if it had never been tested or revealed.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. My drill instructor used to say that all the time. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to. I

Someone said to me once that Alaska didn't create character; it revealed it.

Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong.

but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

Don't screw with Baldie.

Dad seemed older, his skin more lined and creased. He smiled in that way of his, the way he did everything in life, full tilt, no explanations, no regrets, no safety nets. You knew Tom Walker in a glance, because he let you in. You knew instantly that this was a man

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

It's so easy to do the wrong thing in life, don't you think? When we see a clear road to being a better person, we ought to take it.