Character Quotes · Page 399

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

— Neal A. Maxwell

Rumor is what people say you are. Reputation is who people think you are. Character is who you really are when no…

— Nishan Panwar

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

— Steven Soderbergh

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

— Julianna Baggott

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

— John Cory

I love unusual games, games that dare to be different and that are not based on violent actions.

— David Cage

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God;…

— Saint Augustine

I feel like I've always approached criticism with a degree of morality, right? Like, not as a moralizer, but just as somebody…

— Wesley Morris

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator…

— Jenna Elfman

German football is like English football. The Germans and the English do not play like a Brazilian side. They have to improve,…

— Franz Beckenbauer

30 Rock' is superbly funny - it's unashamedly odd, loud and cartoony. There are physical jokes, clever jokes, dumb jokes, character jokes…

— Lou Sanders

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi…

— Kalki Koechlin

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an…

— Milo Ventimiglia

I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even…

— Scott Snyder

“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story…

— Lemony Snicket

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course…

— Miranda July

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this…

— Seneca the Younger

I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is…

— A.M. Homes

History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too…

— George Stillman Hillard

Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by…

— Chauncey Wright

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

— Stevie Wonder

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

— Joseph P. Farrell

For the Robert Roode character, wrestling is kind of secondary, and money is his main priority.

— Bobby Roode

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

— John Ruskin

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.

— Gaspar Noe

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

— David Hewlett

“Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.”

— Alicia Jennings

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

— Anonymous

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

— Emile Durkheim

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

— Plato

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

— Carl Gustav Carus