Quotes About Character

You don't teach boys to be charming. It makes people think they are devious.

No se conoce a un hombre hasta que se le ve perder.»

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.

You're a heartless creature but that's part of your charm. Though you've got more charm than the law allows.

What a white livered, cowardly little bitch you are.

Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.

Scarlett O'Hara wasn't pretty.

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She only did—did what she felt she had to do. And our men did what they felt they had to do. People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to—to judge others by ourselves.

She thought: "They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't. I think that shows Rhett's good sense.

Las pruebas, la adversidad, forman a la gente o la destrozan.

SCARLETT O'HARA WAS NOT BEAUTIFUL

They both see the truth of this war, but Ashley is willing to die about it and Rhett isn't. I think that shows Rhett's good sense. She paused a moment, horror struck that she could have such a thought about Ashley. They both see the same unpleasant truth, but Rhett likes to look it in the face and enrage people by talking about it-and Ashley can hardly bear to face it.

I'm sure your children won't approve of you, Scarlett, any more than Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Elsing and their broods approve of you now. Your children will probably be soft, prissy creatures, as the children of hard-bitten characters usually are. And to make them worse, you, like every other mother, are probably determined that they shall never know the hardships you've known. And that's all wrong. Hardships make or break people. So you'll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.

But Gerald has known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.

But she felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did. Any man who was fool enough to fall for a simper, a faint and an 'oh, how wonderful you are!' wasn't worth having.

She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart. The

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.