Quotes About Character

Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled.

Everyone is more than one thing," said Kieran. "We are more than single actions we undertake, whether they be good or evil.

I am, in the end, what you made me.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy.

Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approached. "I mean, if you really think about it. It's confusing. 'Put a Mark on me, Mark.

No, i mean enterprising." said Will. "When I mean morally deficient, I say,`Now, that is something i would have done´

If you have a soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.

Every decision you make, makes you. Never let other people choose who you're going to be.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters. And the people you know. Valentine was Hodge's friend, and I don't think Hodge really had anyone else in his life to challenge him or make him be a better person. If I'd had that life, I don't know how I would have turned out. But I didn't. I have my family. And I have you.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

The choices we make, make us.

However, there is something you should have. Something every Shadowhunter should have." "An obnoxious, arrogant attitude?" Simon said.

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Fire tests gold

There's more to someone being lovable than the way they look." "...he told me that the way you can tell if a bug or a snake is poisonous, like, is if it's got really lovely, bright markings. The more the beautiful its skin is, the more deadly it is." "All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

I don't think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

You think they are kind, that the Nephilim are kind, because they are good, but goodness is not kindness, and there is nothing crueler than virtue.

But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

You're sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you're almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words...

A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude.

Isabelle. It was always Isabelle.