Quotes About Character

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Man's character is the product of his premises.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

There should be a connection between a man's hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him.

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.