Quotes About Character

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

I'm not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.