Quotes About Character

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

Es mucho más fácil ser malo —dijo el—. Especialmente si uno no tiene ninguna razón para ser bueno.

Most men have inner demons," Kingston replied quietly. "God knows I do. So does a friend who's the finest and most genuinely moral man I've ever known.

Love is not born of coarseness," Phoebe said quietly. "The ability to love is the noblest quality a man can possess.

Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity. And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

in my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.

Rhys tried to imagine what his mother would make of this subtle, incandescent creature with a mind full of books and music in her fingers. "She'll think you're too pretty. And too soft. She doesn't understand your kind of strength." Helen looked pleased. "You think I'm strong?" "I do," he said without hesitation. "You have a will like a steel blade.

She's not a lunatic," Daisy told her sister. "She's a New Yorker.

St. Vincent was a handsome man with wheat-colored hair and pale blue eyes. Some claimed he had the most perfect form and features of any man alive. The looks of a saint, the soul of a scoundrel.

Would you say that you're a good man, Harry?" He had to think about that. "No," he finally said. "In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

What if Winterborne turns out to be lame and blind?" "He'll still be rich.

With that obdurate set of his jaw, he looked exactly like the arrogant ass he had been the first time they'd met.

She had spent that summer and early fall fancying herself a character in a Willa Cather novel, so caught up in the symbolic bounty of the harvest

Our worst day brings out the best in us

It's our scars that define us.

Money doesn't determine worth.

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. —Al Capone CHAPTER

My favorite, and all macho alpha men like you have a secret softer side and a sweet tooth. It's part of the breed.

I know, deep in my heart and soul, that I have to own how I allow myself to process life, how I allow events and people to affect me. I define my character. They do not.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

I have a reputation to maintain." "Best-dressed pirate?

I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.