Quotes About Character

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.