Quotes About Character

Being powerfull is like being a lady. If you have to tell people that you are, you aren't

Nowadays there really is no primary poverty left in this country. In Western countries we are left with the problems which aren't poverty. All right, there may be poverty because people don't know how to budget, don't know how to spend their earnings, but now you are left with the really hard fundamental character—personality defect.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations," she went on, "are all too frequently those who by our own words and acts ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right to independent thought.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob...

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

it would seem that whoever did write this book knows you very well. You appear in it, sir. As...as the hero.

It's a simple domestic tale, about a girl who has problems getting married, and how she deals with her relations and friends. Miss Dalrymple has quite an eye for character; I'd swear some of her people must be drawn from life, and it's no wonder she wants to remain anonymous.

Mud and dust almost have personalities. They seem to be alive. Like scoundrels. True villains. Enemies.

Good will starts out fat and sweet as tub butter and turns slowly rancid. It must be made again daily if we want it fresh.

Albert Campion: 'I'm serious!' Lugg: 'That's unhealthy in itself.

Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.

While you wait for a grander plan to emerge in your head, a thousand small choices make up your life, none of them honorable.

You can tell a lot about someone's personality by how he orders coffee. "Decaf please, skim milk, no sugar." That's the kind of a guy who goes through the car wash wearing a seat belt.

I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.

Madame de Staël herself explained the mainspring of her character with the simple words: 'My passion is my genius'. Just before her death, almost as if writing her own epitaph, she said to Chateaubriand: 'I have always been the same; lively and sad. I have loved God, my father and liberty.

a man's character should be weighed along with his counsel.

It might be said that the same thing is true of every form of education; a man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done.

It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.