Quotes About Character

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.

Nature made you for that career which you fulfilled: you were from your birth to your dying a scoundrel; you COULDN'T have been anything else, however your lot was cast; and blessed it was that you were born among the prigs, — for had you been of any other profession

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners…I want my children to be people– each one separate– each one special– each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others

if a man is an honest idiot. i can love him. but i cannot love a dishonest genius

The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

One beautiful heart is better than thousand beautiful faces. So choose people having beautiful hearts rather than faces!

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.

It is excellent To have a giant's strength But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

And what's he then that says I play the villain?

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

Virtue? A fig! 'Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Alas, the frailty is to blame, not we For such as we are made of, such we be

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strenght, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.