Character Quotes · Page 306

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.

— James N. Frey

Your talent will open the door but only your character can keep you there.

— Christine Caine

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

— Amber Heard

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

— Lynn Nottage

Naan' performed admirably, and the people have since associated me with that character. I am in no hurry to change that image.

— Vijay Antony

When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.'

— Tom Odell

I wanted to have lots of characters in 'Bebop' without white skin, and if people weren't used to that, well, maybe it…

— Shinichiro Watanabe

In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think,…

— Cassandra Clare

“There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must…

— Sarah Price

The one consistent character in all of this is Chelsea Green, and that's how people know me, even as all else changes.…

— Laurel Van Ness

Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more…

— Diane Kruger

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to…

— Derek Jacobi

“A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about…

— Israelmore Ayivor

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that…

— James Anthony Froude

Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix…

— J.R. Ward

It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his…

— Bernard de Mandeville

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to…

— Jane Alexander

There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one…

— Gabriel Ba

“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’…

— Oscar Wilde

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters…

— Criss Jami

When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

— Stephen Covey

I've never hurt anybody, never in my life. That's not my character or who I am.

— Aroldis Chapman

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

— Josh Billings

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

— Graham Brown

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

— Jon Stewart

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

— Will Sasso

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or…

— Auguste Rodin

I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey.

— Enzo Amore

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

— Saul Bellow

If I get to audition for a part that has a queer character, I'm like, Oh, my God.

— Megan Stalter

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

— Jon Voight

Virtue, but still get the same paths, we have forgotten to take it on the eye

— Mak_786

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

— Judith Martin

You can tell a lot about a man's character by watching him win or lose money.

— Molly Bloom

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

— Manuel Puig