Quotes About Character

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

Tengo un presentimiento sobre Zuzana. Creo que no es buena o mala, si no las dos cosas -la mezcla perfecta de ambas, un enroscado cono de helado de bondad y maldad.

It was his manner - the warmth of him, like steam rising from tea. One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

That was Kaz: carnal and elegant. And deceitful. And narcissistic. And, honestly, kind of dumb.

If Eliza had been a whiner, or a prima donna, or some kind of loud chewer or something, this journey could have been a nightmare.

One looked at him and thought, Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

As if this whole place were a story about her.

Don't be weak, my boy', I whispered. I know he heard me. It was something I had told him many times. But what did I mean? For I did not want him to be strong either. Not like his father, who could fling his cousin through the air. Not like my mother, who could chase the husband, who so loved her, with a switch. I meant some other thing. Something like Captain Jane in her wolf cloak. Something like Eliza when the metal was in her voice and she had set her jaw.

Each scream is as different as each Red Boy. Different and the same.

Take my word for this, reader, and say a fool told it you, if you please, that he who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

The vices of some men are magnificent.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.