Character Quotes · Page 73

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

— Christopher Hitchens

Character is revealed through action.

— Aristotle

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.”

— Andrew Levkoff

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

— Martin Luther

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

— Chelsea Cain

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

— Zebulon Pike

Never choose the easy path. Choose the one that has morals

— Nishan

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

— John Steinbeck

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.

— Mahatma Ghandi

People would be shocked to know... that despite the nature of my TV character, I am actually a nice guy

— James Lafferty

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

— Paul Wellstone

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in…

— Alan Rickman

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

My character is 'Get up and keep fighting,' unless I've been nailed to the ground.

— Troy Deeney

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

— Julian McMahon

Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is…

— Stephen Covey

I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective…

— Katee Sackhoff

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission,…

— Kurt Busiek

I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody…

— Pierce Brosnan

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be…

— Horacio Quiroga

“Cicero argues that the source of justice, truth, virtue, etc.—in a word, morality—is natural law. It is permanent and supreme, unalterable by…

— Mark R. Levin

“Morality is an evolutionary adaption for any sentient species. Our survival is promoted by working together, and any group requires a moral…

— Jasper T. Scott

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel,…

— Nicole Beharie

“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions…

— Angela Carter

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals…

— Harper Lee

For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a…

— Gale Harold

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

My mother, when I was doing stage acting in Chicago, would come to see any show that I was in. There was…

— Paul Raci

“Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy—it comes from…

— Jim Butcher

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the…

— George Washington

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that…

— L.A. Paul

A villain always preferred luring the heroine to his lair.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No character in a soap is indispensable.

— Smriti Irani

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

— Bill Belichick

Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

— Laozi

The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

— Anonymous

It is always character first and story second.

— Jeff Wachtel

I've always played characters that were younger than myself.

— Carey Mulligan