Quotes About Character

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

He sho a preacher, mon! He didn't look like much at first, but hush!

Mi sa che le donne riescono a fare del bene senza essere tanto gentili. Gli uomini, be' forse. Ma solo una donna che è anche lei poco per bene sarà davvero gentile con un'altra che ha bisogno di gentilezza

It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He's not what people say about him at all. He's not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He's as mad as a hatter, and I don't know how they've let him go so long.

We are men of action. Lies do not become us. -- Westley

We are men of action. Lies do not become us.

She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.

She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She

We are both men of action, Westley replied. Lies do not become us.

who was Fezzik. Not your ordinary Hadassah

I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.

Those who follow that part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow that part which is little are little men. To the mind belongs the office of thinking. By thinking, it gets the right view of things; by neglecting to think, it fails to do this. Let a man first stand fast in the supremacy of the nobler part of his constitution, and the inferior part will not be able to take it from him. It is simply this which makes the great man.

Parents often say, "Don't let me catch you doing that again!" and that is all right, but a good, honest life is more than that. Moral development is not a game of "Catch me if you can." It is better to focus clearly on what really matters: the kind of person one is.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of anyone.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

All of which goes to prove that there is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

He trusts his temperament. Wanting a universe that suits it, he believes in any representation of the universe that does suit it. He feels men of opposite temper to be out of key with the world's character, and in his heart considers them incompetent and 'not in it,' in the philosophic business, even tho they may far excel him in dialectical ability.

Toda nuestra vida en cuanto a su forma definida , no es más que un conjunto de hábitos