Quotes About Character

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

Bad nature never lacks an instructor.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

We are what we seem to be.

Employers know the nature of people best.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green

Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.