Quotes About Character

By this reckoning he is more a shrew than she.

You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd you not.

I am determinèd to prove a villain

The apparel oft proclaims the man

some good I mean to do, Despite of mine own nature.

good alone Is good without a name, vileness is so

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love – and so I take my leave, In resolution as I swore before. -Hortensio

Bist du zu feige, / Derselbe Mann zu sein in Tat und Mut, / Der du in Wünschen bist?

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.

he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age; doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion:

And I realize how faulty were my own perceptions, how clumsily I handled the situation, with what lack of wit and with what ineffectiveness did I deal with Nathan at a moment when supreme delicacy was called for… far from my mind was any idea that Nathan might be disturbed. I thought he was merely being a colossal prick. I regarded Nathan's outburst as a shocking failure of character, a lapse of decency, rather than the product of some aberration of mind.

It was as if this man whom they had all so greatly admired, and who had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis -a man of exemplary resilience and courage- had by his suicide demonstrated a frailty, a crumbling of character they were loath to accept.

Morrissey was singularly small, a man in his mid-thirties who had once been compared to a ferret. He had a thin trap of a mouth and greased black hair that he perpetually attended, directing it back from his forehead with a clogged comb. He was dressed now, as invariably he was, in flannel trousers and the jacket of a blue striped suit over a blue pullover, and a shirt that was buttoned to the neck but did not have a tie in its collar.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Las personas que triunfan a largo plazo son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia

son aquellas que tienen una actitud positiva y que han creado una reputación de excelencia

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

If a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

a man's word isn't any good, he's no good himself.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Whatever she suffered, whatever loss came to her, she would throw it off, for it was not in her nature to go under. Although she was the woman and he a fierce and sometimes arrogant man, hers was the stronger nature because the more pliant.

Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.