Quotes About Character

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Men of few words are the best men.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

Her voice was ever soft,Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;And vice sometime's by action dignified.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savor but themselves.

The purest treasure mortal times affordIs spotless reputation.

There live not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

The trumpet of his own virtues.

She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

There's no artTo find the mind's construction in the face:He was a gentleman on whom I builtAn absolute trust.

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt beWhat thou art promis'd. Yet do I fear thy nature;It is too full o' the milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way.

A man of my kidney.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.