Quotes About Character

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

in China, where a career of banditry in early youth often indicated a man of strong character and purpose.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

A great nose indicates a great man—Genial, courteous, intellectual,Virile, courageous.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Man is made, not simply in the image of God, as though the divine image were reproduced in man, but rather, man is made as the image of God. He is like God.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners.

For all that fair is, is by nature good;That is a sign to know the gentle blood.

A bold bad man.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but who, excited by the blood or the spirit, become almost supernaturally beautiful.

A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

La pregunta es esta, mi amigo: ¿hay tantos hijos de puta como uno cree, o la influencia de los hijos de puta sobre sus semejantes es mayor que la de la gente buena, y es por eso que uno cree que son más que los que en realidad son?