Quotes About Character

You know what I think? Ten percent of any group of human beings are shitheads. Catholics, Jews. Germans, Italians. Pilots, priests. Teachers, doctors, shopkeepers. Ten percent are shitheads. Another ten percent -- salt of the earth! Saints! Give you the shirts off their backs. Most people are in the middle, just trying to get by.

Alice was pretty enough and played piano well, but she was educated in excess of a lady's requirements. She was also possessed of a quiet, stubborn strength of character that had discouraged beaux less determined than Henry Holliday, a Georgia planter ten years her senior.

So much of what he knew about religion struck him as total bullshit; he was disarmed when the fathers freely admitted that some stories were in fact pious fictions. But, judging his character, they dared him to cut through what he called the crap: to find the core of truth, carefully preserved and offered

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson.

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo.

Unfortunately, most of us end up with somebody who's somewhere between Jed Clampett and Homer Simpson.

My grandma Ruth used to say there's a little felon in the best of us.

Vulgarity is the crutch of the weak and the ignorant,'" I snapped. "But what the fuck did she know?

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.

Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel. But, what about virtue?

In the shapeliness of a life, habit plays its sovereign role.

Cool," said Jack. Florence tucked Jack's blanket tighter around him. "There, soldier. Warmer now?

The hyena has a reputation for being a thief and a coward.

He has a minor in explosives and the slightly bitter, misanthropic personality of someone who shouldn't.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

It was, perhaps, the amiable character of this man that inclined me more to that branch of natural philosophy which he professed, than an intrinsic love for the science itself.

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.

What a personage says or does reveals a certain moral purpose; and a good element of character, if the purpose so revealed is good. Such goodness is possible in every type of personage, even in a woman. ARISTOTLE: The Art of Poetry. (tr. Ingram Bywater.)

but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character

An open and capacious forehead gave indications of a good understanding, joined to great frankness of disposition.

Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet them, and the poor devil whose hope was in their durability, finds them sink from under him.