Character Quotes · Page 207

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

— George Sand

“aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

In the mid-'80s when the business took a big change, everybody was living their character.

— Ricky Steamboat

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

— David Hume

“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.”

— Oscar Wilde

I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the Batmobile was…

— Sam Heughan

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

— George Washington

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

— Faith Baldwin

If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and…

— Katheryn Winnick

I internalise every role that I do and my creative process sees me immerse myself with the setting and the character that…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that…

— Deepika Padukone

“That’s the problem with charm. It means you get away with stuff. It means you never have to develop a real character…

— Elizabeth Day

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head…

— Gore Vidal

“And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study 17 Virtue, and that part of philosophy 18 Will I apply that treats of…

— William Shakespeare

I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem…

— Daniel Mays

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and…

— Jane Austen

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable…

— Fethullah Gulen

And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,…

— Veronica Roth

If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For…

— Anonymous

With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there.…

— George Newbern

“I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.”

— Peter Koevari

“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”

— Morgan Parker

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

— Narendra Modi

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love being the bad guy. I think that the audience prefer me as a bad guy.

— Alberto Del Rio

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

— Marc Webb

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

— Luc de Clapiers

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

— T. S. Eliot

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

— Shaunie O'Neal

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it's true color.

— Rachel Scott

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

— Neil Patrick Harris

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

— Maggie Shayne

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

— Jackie Collins