Quotes About Character

Umbo grimaced. "It would be just like him.

I'm not a character in one of your novels." "More's the pity. You would speak more interesting dialogue if you were.

If I could make my heart hard, said Alvin, I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.

When God anoints a person, a pattern of testing appears to take place at specific times in the leader's life. God often takes each leader through four major tests to determine if that person will achieve God's ultimate call on his or her life. The person's response to these tests is the deciding factor in whether they can advance to the next level of responsibility in God's Kingdom.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

You are what you read.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.