Quotes About Character

She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the ming of the most resolute of men.

My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children." —Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

EMONE Non pensare che sia nel giusto solo il tuo carattere, solo ciò che dici, e nient'altro. Chi crede di essere il solo a capire, il solo a poter parlare, il solo a possedere un'anima retta, appena lo apri scopri che è vuoto. Ma che un uomo, anche se già è saggio, impari molto e non pretenda troppo, ciò non è vergognoso per nulla.»

A writer who always has his characters "walk" is missing opportunities.

Many bad men are rich, many good men are poor; but we shall not exchange wealth for honour, for money flits from man to man but honour abides forever.

Power proves the man.

Vertraue einem edlen Charakter mehr als einem Eid.

he only looks at how hard a person works and what results they get—and not at what a completely horrible cow they are.

In time you will know this well: For time, and time alone, will show the just man, though scoundrels are discovered in a day.

It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.

But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.

For time alone shews a man's honesty, But in one day you may discern his guilt.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.

The good befriend themselves.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

I've never known an honest man who can plead so well for any plea whatever.

Every slander wins belief Aimed at souls whose worth is chief:

Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?

Time alone can bring the just man to light— the criminal you can spot in one short day.

If thou dost count a virtue stubbornness, Unschooled by reason, thou art much astray.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty