Quotes About Character

Once Alasdair killed Caithness and exiled Caitlin, the lousy lying and the brusque disregard for politics and manipulation only solidified in her character.

He was really a striking man, with his freckles and auburn hair.

Unless something remarkable had changed, he wore spiky, kinky sandy-auburn braids a shade darker than his freckled skin and a shade paler than his light-catching eyes.

He chuckled, his eyes twinkling like agates, the first flash of a real personality she'd seen.

Say what you would about the Crown Investigator; she was a lady who could hold her liquor. She chortled at the thought: most unladylike, which made her laugh the more.

I'm not usually stunned speechless. Call it a character flaw.

He sipped his drink, made a thinking noise, and rubbed a spatulate fingertip across his annoyingly well-formed nose.

His hair was unmistakeable, a startling light color that Lesa was almost temptd to call blond, though nobody classically blond had survived Assessment.

There was a girl. There's always a girl, they say, and in this case it was true.

By the rules of fiction, with which life to be credible must comply, he was as a character "impossible" - each time they met, for instance, he showed no shred or trace of having been continuous since they last met.

and Matchett, who was as strong as a nigger

He said he judged people by their characters. I said was that always a quite good way of judging, as people's characters get so different at times, as it depends so much what happens to them.

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. No one has ever found two blades of ribbon grass alike, and no one will ever find two human beings alike. Seeing, then, what must be the infinite diversity in human character, we can in a measure appreciate the loss to a nation when any class of people is uneducated and unrepresented in the government.

Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.

Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.

Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

The incredible blue of his eyes and the intensity with which zeroed in on me made my heart jolt, made me feel as if I were on an elevator that had suddenly dropped beneath me. All I could do was stare at him, surprised. Of course the character of Helena would have acted the same way. I wasn't acting but I looked like I was

Stand true to your calling to be a man. Real women will always be relieved and grateful when men are willing to be men

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.

Your friends are a reflection of you.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.