Quotes About Character

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence

No es el tiempo ni la ocasión los que determinan la intimidad; es sólo el carácter, la disposición de las personas. Siete años podrían no bastar para que dos seres se conocieran bien, y siete días son más que suficientes para otros.

The good sense of Colonel

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met

I'm going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

I can readily believe," answered he gravely, "that report may vary greatly with respect to me;

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

with the result of which he trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had steadfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.

two elder sisters. In society so superior to what she had generally known, her improvement was great. She was not of so ungovernable a temper

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

She had used him ill, deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. "And yours," he replied with a smile,"is willfully to misunderstand them.

Un carácter complejo no tiene qué ser más o menos estimable que uno como el suyo.

Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.

Since her being at Lambton, she had heard that Miss Darcy was exceedingly proud; but the observation of a very few minutes convinced her that she was only exceedingly shy.

if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne.

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy - it's disposition alone.

the history; that was the glory of Miss

It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. - You are never sure of a good impression being durable. Every body may sway it: let those who would be happy be firm.

James Benwick is rather too piano

and yet, it was not in her nature to question the veracity of a young man of such amiable appearance as Wickham.