Quotes About Character

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good i know of everyone

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

I'd become the unreliable narrator of my first novel.

Out of a hundred birds of the same stock perhaps one will be that bird all breeders hope for—a bird of highly individual character, courageous and resourceful. Much depends on the individual bird and especially its character and intelligence.

admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness

He was small, thin, greedy, clever, morally void, and monstrously bent. March "took corruption for granted,37 and used it casually and openly." He had been imprisoned for bribery and escaped to France, and by 1939 he was the richest, and dodgiest, man in Spain, nicknamed "the last pirate of the Mediterranean

Ernest Hemingway based Robert Jordan, the main character in For Whom the Bell Tolls, partly on Umar Mamsurov.

One colleague described him thus: "With fierce black eyes and a hawk-like nose, thick well-oiled hair slicked back from a low forehead, he looked like a casting director's ideal choice for a desert sheikh or a slinky tango lizard.

Ashenden admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness," wrote Maugham.

My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.

But I quickly learned that, in both the public and private spheres, how you lead is as important as what you know.

This character trait ("flaw" is probably a better word) had caused some tension with Anna early in our marriage. But

I found him to be smart and very tough. (His heavy New York accent contributed to that impression.)

In contrast to Lina, Masia was warm and outgoing—everything a boy could want in a grandmother.

This sort of bullying isn't just present at the universities. It has taken over the media wholesale. For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The same is eminently true in Hollywood, where moral narrative is the heart of the business.

For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being. The

The Hays Code stated: "When right standards are consistently presented, the motion picture exercises the most powerful influences. It builds character, develops right ideals, inculcates correct principles, and all this in attractive story form. If motion pictures consistently hold up for admiration high types of characters and present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind.

For the media, all arguments are character arguments. If you disagree with the members of the media about something, you are a fundamentally bad human being.

The questions they prefer to ask are about your character; the questions they prefer not to answer are all of them. Instead, they like to dodge issues in favor of those character arguments.

When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That's nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty.