Quotes About Character

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Nature her custom holds,Let shame say what it will.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

He was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

My friends were poor, but honest.

No worse a husband than the best of men.

His nature is too noble for the world:He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,Or Jove for 's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent.

There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

Nothing in his lifeBecame him like the leaving it; he diedAs one that had been studied in his deathTo throw away the dearest thing he ow'd,As 'twere a careless trifle.

Thou lily-liver'd boy.

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,When not to be receives reproach of being.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Let the end try the man.

Are you good men and true?

Benedick the married man.

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,Shall win my love.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

It makes us, or it mars us.