Quotes About Character

Take warning and begone! It's a kindness to let you have a glimpse of her genuine disposition.

But cheer up! He died true to his character: drunk as a lord.

She abandoned them under a delusion; picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character, and acting on the false impressions she cherished.

Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.

It formed a sweet picture.  The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.  I did not marvel how Catherine Earnshaw could forget her first friend for such an individual.

There were no signs of the ruffian he used to be. Only his eyes, I noticed, were still full of fire.

Pa ni prva junakinja tog imena [Catherine] nije bez odre?ene ?udne ljepote u svojem divljaštvu, niti je nepoštena usred izopa?ene strasti i strastvene izopa?enosti.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.' ... So I chattered on; and Heathcliff gradually lost his frown, and began to look quite pleasant...

honest people don't hide their deeds. (Nelly about Heathcliff, ch. X, p. 103)

A very agreeable portrait,' [of Edgar Linton] I observed to the housekeeper. 'Is it like?' 'Yes,' she answered; 'but he looked better when he was animated; that is his everyday countenance; he wanted spirit in general.

Kötü bir yürek en sevimlileri bile çirkinden de kötü yapar.

Yüzün kapkara olsayd? bile, iyi bir kalbin oldukça bu senin yüzünü ayd?nlat?rd? çocuÄŸum, kötü bir kalp ise en temiz yüzlüyü bile iÄŸrençten daha beter birine çevirir.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

that hard work, honesty, and integrity always paid off in the end, while skating by on your looks was somehow an offense. And like that day playing psychiatrist, I occasionally worried that she was right.

It was probably a function of getting older—I think we all become exaggerated versions of ourselves

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Bad people very often do one good thing.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful

We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect – we all of us do mean or wrong things at times – but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.

I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good, sound women the world can lean on. Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

Libby seems a good sort. I don't know that I'm

Artemis Fowl will never be secondary. I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second? said Holly.