Quotes About Character

a list of people who drive Mercedes-Benzes, and he checks to see if they have made up for it by being kind to people.

A man could be a hereditary ruler, or an elected president, but not be a gentleman, and that would show in his every deed. But if you had a leader who was a gentleman, with all that this meant, then you were lucky indeed.

You know what they're like. Mma Ramotswe nodded. She did. They were not all bad, of course. But many of them were awful, which somehow eclipsed the better qualities of some of the nice ones. It was very sad.

Regularity without some metaphysical value behind it, some beauty of soul or character, was more disappointing – and indeed repulsive – than the honestly haphazard, the humanly messy.

If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.

There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.

Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.

Even Ulysses," said Nicola. "Babies love Scotch Pies over in Glasgow. That's what they feed them over there." "Do they give them Irn Bru in their baby bottles?" asked Bertie. Nicola smiled. "Possibly, Bertie. They do a lot of things differently in Glasgow. It's a city of great character.

Saying sorry does not make you look small—it makes you look big." "I think so too," said Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. "But some people are small inside, and if you're small inside, you can't be big outside. It just won't come to you.

Take care of your clothes when they're new, but your honour from a tender age.

She is gently manic, in a pottering sort of way.

Strong people didn't like witnesses to their weak moments.

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.

I am a Count, Not a Saint.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character, said the count; on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

So like Athos. thought Aramis; That which is actually good never alters.

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.

Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.