Quotes About Character

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

I'm learning everyone has many layers...and one or two don't define us.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

the great beauties of the world were the women who displayed not only beauty but character:

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

May those that love us, love us. And those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles So we will know them by their limping.

But I could just as well turn into a Hulla--and if I became a star, I might actually be a worse person than a Hulla, who was good. Perhaps glamour isn't all that important after all.

There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short the very idea of character seems to lose its significance, seems in fact to drop out of sight. We see human figures in a momentary flash. We see them in fleeting profile. We see them in archetypal climaxes which define their mode of existence. Situation tends to replace character, representative condition to replace individuality. ("Introduction")

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

Yes, sir," answered the boatswain, a pillar of red meat overgrown with red hair.

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real names.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Your personal brand when consciously built can be a force for good, or a force for destruction.

Honour, not honours.

Always perplexed, we are unable to stop. This is called stupidity. While we say that the character of the common man has infinite variety, it is all just a matter of the muddiness of his ch'i: how shallow or deep, how thick or thin.

The wise men and men of noble character in the past who were wealthy and exalted were rare. From time to time there were men who received high rank and large stipends, but they did not pursue such things themselves; because the genius and virtues of these men were not hidden, they were promoted by their superiors, and thus only received these things unavoidably. But because they were not always in tune with the minds of men of little caliber, many of them were slandered and driven away.

A gentleman, my Lord Father, is such whether he is on earth or on the treetops

Why should a young child not begin to understand that you can face a small amount of discomfort in order to stay faithful to an idea? And in any case who said that young people should not have complexes? Complexes arise through a natural attrition with the reality that surrounds us, and when you have complexes you try to overcome them. Life is in fact nothing but this triumphing over one's own complexes, without which the formation of a character and personality does not happen.

the planet, as with a person of difficult character. (Unless the difficulty of character is all on Mr. Palomar's side: he tries in vain to escape subjectivity by taking refuge among the celestial bodies.)

No lo dudes, tu gran carácter carece de secretos para mí, incluso cuando no sé descifrar una palabra, comprendo o creo comprender lo que querías decir con los peculiares trazos de tu pluma

L'amore sano è quello che abbraccia una donna sola e intera, compreso il suo carattere e la sua intelligenza.

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