Quotes About Character

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

A man lets you know who he is by how he treats others.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

Love makes saints or sinners out of men.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.

I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.