Quotes About Character

She reminds me a bit of those women in nineteenth-century novels, interested in the moral improvement of their inferiors,' she said.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever;

my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And

A poor Negro has at least the excuse of his birth," Edie said. "The poor white has nothing to blame for his station but his own character. Well, of course, that won't do. That would mean having to assume some responsibility for his own laziness and sorry behavior. No, he'd much rather stomp around burning crosses and blaming the Negro for everything than go out and try to get an education or improve himself in any way.

Bunny put away his copy of The Bride of Fu Manchu and started carrying around a volume of Homer instead.

Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts.

Elle ne s'intéressait pas aux livres dans lesquels les enfants grandissaient, car (dans la vie comme en littérature) ce processus entrainait un affaiblissement accéléré et inexplicable du caractère ; de façon totalement inattendue, les héros et les héroïnes renonçaient à leurs aventures pour un amour insipide, se mariaient et fondaient une famille, et, en général, se comportaient comme un troupeau de vaches.

Fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good.

These were good people, common people; the salt of the earth people; people whom i should count myself fortunate to know

Looks and language of hatred are not very pretty at any time, but in the atmosphere of death they acquire a character of horror.

A man is so much judged by his acquaintance; and, in fact, it is essential.

Beauty is no advantage to a man. The being agreeable is an immense one.

fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur.

The melancholy fact is that the churches no longer influence the development of national character. People go to church mainly because of an impulse to participate in a service of worship, not because of any spiritual guidance they expect from the clergyman.

Righteousness is innocence that has been maintained in the presence of temptation.

The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

the theory and the practice of Imperialism regarded as a "mission of civilisation," in its effects upon "lower" or alien peoples, and its political and moral reactions upon the conduct and character of the Western nations engaging in it.

But Thor and I weren't going to happen, ever. I didn't tell her this. I might be a killer, but I'm not mean.

You're the total of all the choices you've made in your life, Jack. This is what you have because this is what you chose.

What type of person would want to give out tickets and bust people's balls for a living? Answer: bullies and jerks and guys with little man syndrome who needed to boost their fragile egos by pushing people around. But Jack wasn't like that. She was a decent cop, and a decent person.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.