Quotes About Character

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Be good and you will be lonely.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

When I find a well-drawn character in fiction or biography, I generally take a warm personal interest in him, for the reason that I have known him before—met him on the river.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.

A company is known by the people it keeps.

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.