Quotes About Character

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labour to renew...

Virtue's the Paint that can make Wrinkles shine.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The excess of virtue is a vice.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

A man in words and not in deeds, Is like a Garden full of weeds.

A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds; And when the weeds begin to grow, It's like a garden full of snow...

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Fire tests metal, wine tests men.

Wine and wealth change wise men's manners.

I have remarked a perfect analogy in the language, movement of the body of a person, and his handwriting. The more I compare different handwritings, the more am I convinced that handwriting is the expression of the character of him who writes.

A signature is the shape of our personality; it's our nameprint, our soulmark in ink.

Gemini — Stubborn. Trustworthy. Sarcastic. Real AF. Socially selective. Destructive when provoked.

Through the many challenges both professionally and personally, she was the essence of grace, civility and dignity.

A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to everybody, generally too kind. A philanthrope loves the whole human race, but dislikes his wife, his mother, his brother, and his friends and acquaintances. Misanthrope is the potato, — rough and repulsive outside, but good to the core. Philanthrope is a peach, — his manner all velvet and bloom, and his words sweet juice, but his heart of hearts a stone.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country — and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be insufferable.

See Dick drink. See Dick drive. See Dick die. Don't be a Dick.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you'll meet the same people on the way down.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you…it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.