Quotes About Character

I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get.

Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each other already, because we met on the river.

I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers.

There are not enough morally brave men in stock. We are out of moral-courage material; we are in a condition of profound poverty.

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad

There is not one man in seventy-five hundred that can tell what a pictured face is intended to express. There is not one man in five hundred that can go into a court-room and be sure that he will not mistake some harmless innocent of a juryman for the black-hearted assassin on trial. Yet such people talk of character and presume to interpret expression in pictures.

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker.

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Tom!, ¿cómo pudiste ser tan noble?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Ä°nsan dürüstlüÄŸünün mimar? kendisi deÄŸildir.

She was reserved, and kept things to herself, as the truly great always do.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.

Thankfully, though, personalities are not born ugly; they are learned ugly

It's probably possible to gain humility by means other than repeated humiliation, but repeated humiliation works very well.

I shouldn't be surprised . . . This is Tom. This is what Tom does best. He lets you down.