Quotes About Character

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

I like to play good girls more because I play bad ones all the time!

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.