Quotes About Character

A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.

For the tragedy of our lives is not created entirely from within. Character, says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,–character is destiny. But not the whole of our destiny.

The best piety is to enjoy - when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight- in art or in anything else.

What has that to do with Miss Brooke's marrying him? She does not do it for my amusement.' 'He has got no good red blood in his body,' said Sir James. 'No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses,' said Mrs Cadwallader.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

Miss Brooke's large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable.

It was a constant source of irritation to him that the public men on his side were, on the whole, not conspicuously better than the public men on the other side.

But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon, said Mr. Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardor, character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Mr. Johnson's character was not much more exceptional than his double chin.

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James. No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses, said Mrs. Cadwallader.

true love for a good woman is a great thing, Susan. It shapes many a rough fellow.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Mas, minha querida Mrs. Casaubon (...) -, o carácter não é uma peça de mármore... não é algo de sólido e inalterável. É algo que está vivo e se transforma, e pode adoecer, como também acontece com o nosso corpo.

If I don't like a man's looks, depend upon it I shall never like HIM. I don't want to know people that look ugly and disagreeable, any more than I want to taste dishes that look disagreeable.

but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witt

Modesty, not temper.

he was made from excellent human dough

If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty;

He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James. "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader. "Why

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are."   Bulstrode's

We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character.

his father was in the law:—most exemplary and honest nevertheless, which is a reason for our never being rich.