Quotes About Character

I don't thinks she cares for anyone much. I love her. She's so like me. Do you? Is she? In looks and the way she talks. I wouldn't love anyone with a character like mine.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

Character is plot, plot is character.

Action is Character.

She was incurably dishonest.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

We all must try to be good.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around. 'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.' I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.

Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

What is a gentleman, anyway? He's a man who prefers the first edition of a book to the last edition of a newspaper.

She is by no means a model character.

The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven hundred dollars and, like so many leaders, proved exceedingly difficult to follow.

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.

brought up rather than brought out. Dick

About Ernest Hemingway] He's a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.

And you say you're a weak character, that you've no will. Not a bit of will—I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires— You are not! She brought one little fist down onto the other. You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Svatko o sebi misli da posjeduje barem jednu od osnovnih ljudskih vrlina, a ovo je moja: ubrajam se me?u malo poštenih ljudi koje sam upoznao u životu.

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.