Quotes About Character

La seule fréquentation des mathématiques ne mûrit guère le cÅ"ur ni le caractère.

Un homme sans défauts est une montagne sans crevasses. Il ne m'intéresse pas.

Celui qui vient au monde sans rien troubler, ne mérite ni égards, ni patience.

les psychologues, par exemple, limitent ordinairement leurs observations à un seul type d'humanité, l'Occidental moderne, et ils étendent abusivement les résultats ainsi obtenus jusqu'à prétendre en faire, sans exception, des caractères de l'homme en général.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Frey, James, How to Write a Damn Good Novel. Helpful emphasis on the three C's of Premise: character, conflict, and conclusion; useful throughout. One of the damn best books on the subject.

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

He learns a bit more slowly than a shepherd dog, but what he learns he knows forever. The Rottweiler is a very fine character dog, but not everybody is suitable for this type of dog.

You're such a cheater. The best wood in your golf bag is your pencil!

Probably my conception of a widow was formed in my early boyhood in Ohio, from a character called Widow Rowley, who lived across the street. I have known others since, but the conception has not been entirely obliterated, so there is always an element of shock when I meet a female who has been labeled widow and I find that she has some teeth, does not constantly mutter to herself, and can walk without a cane.

At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty.

To anyone seeing him but not knowing him, Saul Panzer was nothing but a little guy with a big nose who never quite caught up with his shaving.

I looked at the woman next to Bernard Quest on his left. She was middle-aged, with a scrawny neck and dominating ears, and was unquestionably a rugged individualist, since no lipstick had been allowed anywhere near her.

Nothing is nonsense that is concerned with the vagaries of human conduct.

At the dinner table, and with coffee in the office afterwards, Wolfe resumed on the subject he had started at lunch—Voltaire. The big question was, could a man be called great on account of the way he used words, even though he was a toady, a trimmer, a forger, and an intellectual fop.

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [ An Invitation to Learning , January 1942]

No importa cómo sea ahora tu carácter, la gratitud te dará más paciencia, comprensión, compasión y amabilidad, hasta el punto que no te reconocerás.

he had a mop of white hair above a round, red face with brows that stuck out like spiky prawns and white stubble around his chin. Josie put him at sixty or more. But his eyes were remarkably bright, and when he chuckled, his whole face came to life, as if he were appreciating a good joke. She made an instant assessment that the children would be fine here. She wouldn't mind it herself. There

I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.