The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known. — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
When you let somebody else calculate your existence you will always be one decimal place away from being a whole number. — Sylvia Fox Copy Share Image
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny… — Cornelius Plantinga Jr Copy Share Image
“I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is… — Graham Sutherland Copy Share Image
The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to… — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
“A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We may legitimately hope that among the impulses which arise in minds thus emptied of all ‘rational’ or ‘spiritual’ motives, some will… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced,… — Marc Webb Copy Share Image
I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I think my style changes somewhat. The themes I am interested in exploring are mostly the same, but I tackle them differently.… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
Most people recognize me from The Shawshank Redemption, but there is this subculture of people who have collected all 13 episodes of… — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
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