Quotes About Character

Chacun se flatte de posséder en propre l'une au moins des vertus cardinales. Voici la mienne: je suis l'un des très rares hommes foncièrement honnêtes que je connaisse.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. ... Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes

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

Cada persona sospecha que cuenta por lo menos con una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta es la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que he conocido.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.

You are unsentimental, almost incapable of affection, astute without being cunning and vain without being proud.

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.

Oh, Clara!' Amory said; 'what a devil you could have been if the Lord had just bent your soul a little the other way!

And his mind strong and subtle like the mind of Cuchulin

Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man.

With the influence of a dress her personality had also undergone a change.

Ciascuno di noi si suppone dotato di almeno una delle virtù cardinali, e questa è la mia: sono una delle poche persone oneste che abbia mai conosciuto

Herkes temel erdemlerden hiç deÄŸilse bir tanesini ta??d???n? düÅŸünür. Bana gelince: ben bugüne dek tan?d???m üç beÅŸ dürüst insandan biriyim.

Iga inimene kipub enda juures nägema vähemasti üht suurt voorust, nii ka mina: ma olen aus inimene, üks vähestest, keda tunnen.

It's the whole thing,' he asserted. 'It's the one dividing line between good and evil. I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and they'd be mean even if they were rich.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

His motto: "Screw the little people." He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.

I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me.

No soy nadie, nadie. No sé sentir, no sé pensar, no sé querer. Soy un personaje de novela por escribir, que pasa por el aire, deshecho sin haber existido, entre sueños de quien no me ha sabido formular.

To have sure and definite opinions, instincts, passions, and a dependable, recognizable character – all of this leads to the horror of transforming our soul into a fact, into a material and external thing.

Where there is form there is a soul.

When a man reaches the age of lucidity, one of his main concerns is to actively and thoughtfully shape himself into the image and likeness of his ideal.