Quotes About Character

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

The proof of a man is the danger test, That shows him up at his worst or best.

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.