Quotes About Character

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Brain, Character, Soul - Only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

Schade dass die Natur nur einen Mensch aus dir schuf, Denn zum wiirdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.

Vienas svarbiausi? dalyk? - neleisti, kad žmogaus asmenin?s ypatyb?s tur?t? poveikio tavo sprendimams.

it was the ugliness of character, which is as attractive as beauty. His

It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed me into a thorn bush near the pond. By the time I clawed my way out I was mad enough to bite through wood. If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we truly are.

Zar loš na?in života ne bi svakog u?inio zlo?estim? Dobro se sije?am kako me je jednog dana u Yorodiu jedan dje?ak gurnuo u grm prepun trnja, uhvatio me takav bijes da bih bila u stanju gristi. Ako me nekoliko minuta bola moglo dovesti do takvog bijesa, što bih tek u?inile godinje patnje? ?ak se i kamen može udubiti ako ga dovoljno dugo udaraju kapi kiše.

Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean?

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

There is a strangely consistent parallel between Copernicus' character, and the humble, devious manner in which the Copernican revolution entered through the back door of history, preceded by the apologetic remark: 'Please don't take seriously - it is all meant in fun, for mathematicians only, and highly improbable indeed.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.

As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

JIM, gets up: Chris would never know how to live with a thing like that. It takes a certain talent . . . for lying. You have it, and I do. But not him.

The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.