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Quotes About Character

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
~ Diane Keaton
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
~ Nicolas Cage
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
~ Avi Arad
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
~ Aeschylus
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
~ James Thurber
Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.
~ Elizabeth Inchbald
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
~ Bob Hope
This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.
~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
~ Aristotle
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
~ Damon Runyon
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
~ Bertolt Brecht
He kills her in her own humor.
~ William Shakespeare
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
~ Chris d'Lacey
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
~ Constance Rourke
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.
~ Frank Carson
The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
~ Sydney J. Harris
I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.
~ Michael Angarano
I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.
~ Bobby Cannavale
I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
~ Shannen Doherty
I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.
~ Kellyanne Conway