Quotes About Character

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

George H. W. Bush is gracious. And I'm not saying any of the former presidents aren't gracious, I'm just saying, this man is gracious.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.