Quotes About Character

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

This goes to prove yet again that few people stick to the articles of their characters, and will keep breaking away from them.

Heroic things had been suggested to them, and though they were not heroes as you might read about in old Greek stories, their hearts, such as they were, answered.

There is no development, no maturing in Hitler's character and personality.

Después de todo pienso que entonces, en febrero de 1933, no se puede tomar a mal el hecho de que la mayoría de alemanes se creyera la teoría del incendio comunista. Lo que sí se les puede reprochar, y en lo que consiste su primera y terrible debilidad de carácter colectivo durante la época nazi, es que después de aquello el asunto quedó solucionado.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

As was his language so was his life.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

No," said James with a smile. "But I am the pirate from my story.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.

I've come to the conclusion that there are two types of people. The fucked up good and the fucked up bad. You see, everybody's fucked up. Everybody has had traumas in their lives to deal with. With most people these traumas mess them up inside... but a few people they come through even better adjusted somehow... I mean, they haven't developed damaging emotional problems.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants. But you...you were born to fight tyranny.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

You can hope all you want for a happy ending, but sometimes, like it or not, the guy writing your story is working on a tragedy; you may not even be the main character.