Quotes About Character

A bad person has good friends and a good person has many enemies.

In fiction that has a higher aim, the credibility of every important action in the story is at risk unless the writer is confident that the motivation or ability of the character makes the action credible.

Learning about our history and diving deep in Enslaved, opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. Playing my character really inspired me – he was an author who had a role in the abolition of slavery and even signed the document.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

Where there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Introverts are actually a lot like Clark Kent-- mild and unassuming much of the time, but able to swoop in and turn on our Supercharm when we choose.

Brando said he'd noticed that powerful people spoke quietly, and Don Corleone's quiet calm and nearly inaudible speaking voice are key to the character. When Corleone speaks, you have to be quiet to hear him. What can we learn from Don Corleone (that doesn't involve killing people)? That quiet does have its own power, if we harness it.

Discipline is the great equalizer. If a young woman is beautiful but has no discipline, she will lose her looks as she grows older. If a plain woman is disciplined she will undoubtedly become more beautiful with time.

Poirot suspected Hugo Dockerill was one of the stupidest people he had ever met.

I have heard that he is proud, but also honourable and, most importantly of all, amenable to reason

He was now firmly of the view that if you wanted to see clearly how one person's character diverged from that of another, the most efficient method was to place both in identical situations.

I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met.

There is a difference, Peter, between an unforgivable act and a person of unforgivable character.

knowledge of character is essential to the solving of crime," I said. "Without knowing the motive, you can't solve anything, and without understanding character, motive is unknowable. I have also heard him say that no man can act in a way that is contrary to his own nature.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

No falsehood lingers on into old age.