Quotes About Character

Difficulty shows what men are.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.