Character Quotes · Page 378

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal…

— Robert M. Hensel

I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.

— Susan Ford

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

— Tommy Hilfiger

Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

— J. William Schickel

I think every character that I play has a certain sort of tone or an energy level to them.

— Bill Skarsgard

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

— Orrin Woodward

We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the…

— Larry the Cable Guy

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the…

— Russell Brand

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to…

— Rush Limbaugh

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is…

— Octavia Spencer

How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to…

— Edward Herrmann

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.

— Edward Gibbon

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires…

— Albert Einstein

Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for…

— Cesar Pelli

What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the…

— Paul Tough

“You’re quite right,” said MacMaster. “You’re putting your finger on the thing that matters. If you think it over, you know, that’s…

— Agatha Christie

Jon Raymond and I are in each other's worlds, and we have a similar political point of view and interest in people.…

— Kelly Reichardt

I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any…

— Peter Coyote

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because…

— Morris Gleitzman

One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around…

— Zach Braff

I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a…

— Philippe Halsman

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and…

— Stephen King

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

— Jonathan Swift

You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.

— Prabhas

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

— John Ralston Saul

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are…

— Henry James

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

— Tim Burton

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear…

— Joseph Hall

Morality is the ability to see an issue from points of view other than just your own.

— Anonymous

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

— Lord Acton

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

— Michael Connelly

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well…

— Donald Ray Pollock