Quotes About Character

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

It is a rude awakening, is it not, to discover that people change, or that they have other facets to their character that we did not suspect?

I suppose," he said, his voice harsher than he had intended it to be, "you want marriage again." "No," she said quickly. "No, never that. Not again. Why would any woman willingly make herself the property of a man and suffer all the humiliation of submerging her character and her very identity in his?

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.

She would, in fact, make a quite deplorable duchess.

She was waltzing in a man's arms and smiling at him and enjoying every moment and dreaming of him as he had once been—and of herself as she had once been. She was being seduced and she was allowing it to happen just as if she had no will of her own, no character or principles of her own. Just as if she were that same naive, heedless girl and he was that same flawed golden boy.

Character traits are longer-lasting and are something on which a good marriage can be built. Respect and affection can grow in a marriage if husband and wife like and respect each other.

But then deep down, perhaps she had always been those things. People did not really change, did they?

more annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille

You are despicable, she said, flushing, and you really are no gentleman.

She would never marry a rake, if you will pardon my plain speaking. Then she will reform him . . . A reformed rake makes the best of husbands, it is said.

I had forgot that you have discovered my darkest secret—that I am a gentleman at heart.

Labels helped identify a person, perhaps, but they did not define him. Or her.

It is what we do with the pain, though, how we allow it to shape our character and actions and relationships that matters.

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, In this world, Elwood, you must be - she always called me Elwood - In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart or -oh-so-pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.

In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. ~Elwood P. Dowd

In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. ' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

Chance planned to live in such a way that his son would grow up to be a strong, wise, honorable, faithful man. And the only way Chance knew to teach that was to be such a man himself.

She'd learned so many ways to be modest, it had become a source of pride.