Character Quotes · Page 310

Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

— Rupert Sanders

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

No Person Ever Ended Its Eyesight By Looking On The Bright Side...

— Pacifiersucker

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

— Muriel Spark

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

— Demi Moore

He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.

— William Gilbert

I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character.

— Sarita Choudhury

Whatever character you play, remember they are always doing something they are not just talking.

— Tom Hardy

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and…

— Sayed Kashua

The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in…

— Victoria Clark

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught…

— James Mackintosh

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that…

— Anonymous

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think…

— John Kleinig

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side…

— Vince Vaughn

One of the great things about writing a series is that with each book, the novel is meant to stand alone on…

— Linda Fairstein

Part of what I love about being an actor is I get to become that character and not impose any of my…

— Nicola Coughlan

More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his…

— Charles Francis Adams, Sr

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…

— Samuel Johnson

[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so…

— Steven Knight

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter…

— Lysander Spooner

I hope Chakotay can be a strong warrior-philosopher. An aspect I'm also going to try to bring to the character is spirituality,…

— Robert Beltran

Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at…

— Beverly Lewis

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without…

— Orison Swett Marden

There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant

“Do morals matter, if our alternative is a grim and hopeless end?”

— wildbow

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

— George Lakoff

“...in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.”

— Aleister Crowley

Ed Miliband looks like a character from Sesame Street. I just think he's terrible. When he says something, I just switch off.

— Joanna Page

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

Our productivity in the kingdom of God is directly related to our character and our Christ-likeness.

— Paul Washer

Playing weird and quirky characters, like those with weird nuances, I find very interesting.

— Bel Powley

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

— Randy Alcorn

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

— Tamora Pierce

The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

— Jerome K. Jerome

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

— David Cross

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still…

— Francis Atterbury