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Quotes About Character

Zaphod's just this guy, you know?
~ Douglas Adams
Well,' said Halfrunt brightly, 'Zaphod's just this guy, you know?
~ Douglas Adams
How did society ever function without you, little Sharpies? Your nibs have the precise amount of give to create a line quality with character, yet not so much character as to be smushy. Thank you, little pens.
~ Douglas Coupland
Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
~ Douglas Coupland
Servandae vitae mendacium.
~ Douglas Preston
It's not like Father to be late
~ Douglas Preston
She's more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.""We all have our flaws," said Pendergast.
~ Douglas Preston
She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.
~ Douglas Preston
Our leaders are morally bankrupt, shameless hypocrites, feigning piety but devoid of real spirituality.
~ Douglas Preston
who the heck is dorothy gale?
~ Douglas Preston
You could tell a lot about a person by meeting his brother.
~ Douglas Preston
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
~ Aeschylus
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
~ Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
~ Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
~ Aeschylus
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
~ Aesop
A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.
~ Aesop
He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
~ Aesop
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.
~ Aesop
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature.
~ Aesop
Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.
~ Aesop
What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.
~ Aesop
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
~ Aesop
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
~ Aesop