Quotes About Character

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by, than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

Money without honor is a disease

Really, his self-sufficiency is too much. I can't stand that Jupiter Olympian air of his--the only mythological character exempt, they say, from ill-luck.

The lawyer, tall and thin, had liberal opinions in place of talent.

A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.

There are those whose character is like a chestnut without a kernel.

The virtue of women is perhaps a question of temperament.

A wife is to her husband just what her husband has made her.

We regard it as an infallible principle that great sweetness of disposition united in a woman with plainness that is not repulsive, form two indubitable elements of success in securing the greatest possible happiness to the home.

Non si diventa volgari per colpa dell'alcol: si diventa volgari perché lo si è già.

At first my impatience would lead me to the brink of despair, but when I finally learned to correct my mistakes coolly, it was truly as if I had somehow reformed my own slapdash character.

In the theater there are players who can make a production out of eating an apple.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.

The best saints swear fluently.

Integrity isn't something you have in some parts of your life and not in others. You either have it or you don't.

Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character

Solía decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o únicamente tenían la fuerza de carácter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban sólo con una gargantilla.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

It's not your name that's important. It's who you are. It's living a life of truth, a life without fear

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.