Quotes About Character

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.

It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Great men should not have great faults.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.