Quotes About Character

If you hate a woman, the first thing you destroy is her reputation.

She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be "that poor Mrs. Fool" until the day he dies.

Si soy una mujer honorable, debo ser tan honorable como es honorable un hombre: sin importar lo que me ponga ni cómo me vea. Se trata del respeto que me tengo, no de la forma en la que el mundo me ve, ni de lo que suceda.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult and you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be.

Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you've got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

This is difficult to comprehend when one pauses to consider the character of Christ. Admittedly there have been many false caricatures of this Person, but an unbiased look at His life quickly reveals an individual of enormous compassion and incredible integrity.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different world, and then we'll build...

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being alive embarrasses me.

Un gentleman, c'est quelqu'un qui sait jouer de la cornemuse et qui n'en joue pas.

It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.

A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man.

Be the person your dog thinks you are.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

On the virtuous man] He combines the highest, lowest and middle chords in complete harmony within himself.

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.