Quotes About Character

Her works are not about the blood, but the marrow. They can be charming and harrowing at the same time.

The psychology of character is interesting,' returned Poirot unmoved. 'One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert. You follow me, Hastings?

It is circumstance and proper timing that give an action its character and make it either good or bad.

Wenn man keine Sprache hat, ist alles Durcheinander, und man hat Angst vor Dingen, von denen man sich nicht zu fürchten braucht. In dieser Zeit stotterten die meisten der Kinder um mich herum, sprachen laut oder verschluckten die Wörter. Wenn man keine Sprache hat, offenbart sich der nackte Charakter. Die Vielredner unter uns wurden noch lauter, und die in sich gekehrten verschluckten ihre Stimme. Ohne Muttersprache ist der Mensch verstümmelt.

There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stranger, say, to dance.

No vice is more irksome than that of voicing one's virtues

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

Ceeb maaha inad imtixaan dhacdo, balse waxa ceeb ah ku qanaca caadeysiga dhicitaanka joogtada ah.

Karl was no glamour boy. But even during this first meeting I discovered he had something better. The kind of intelligence that's more attractive than physical beauty.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

Stark and egregious errors, the truly epic failures, forge character. They burnish your edges and make you the person you are.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself; in any case, it is in watching someone unformed enter the path to perfection that my fascination knows no bounds.

You should know a weapon doesn't make the man.

It was almost as if the incoming commander-in-chief had some sort of mental health problem. The kind of mental health problem that you would be disturbed to discover in your kid's piano teacher, let alone the president of the United States of America

A zebra does not change its spots.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?

Probably because for all the amazing things books can do, they can't make you into a bad person