Character Quotes · Page 231

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

— Friedrich Schiller

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me.

— Kurt Vonnegut

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

If you can't be honest or don't have integrity, then you won't have a high standards without good discipline.

— Wazim Shaw

“When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.”

— Richard Marcel I

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

— Dan Barker

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

— Denis Diderot

The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant…

— Francois Rabelais

I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the…

— Omari Hardwick

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without…

— Samuel Johnson

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of…

— Mary McCarthy

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it…

— Walker Percy

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage…

— William Shakespeare

My fear -- and what Ive read and heard -- is that lesbians feel like [The L Word cast] all have long…

— Leisha Hailey

I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's…

— Colin Firth

Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to…

— Grover Cleveland

You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that…

— Channing Tatum

I loved Hank Kingsley. He was very real to me. There was just something about that character. I really believed him. I…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or…

— Luke Evans

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

— Adam Driver

Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

More than the hair and the makeup, what is important is to feel the character.

— Mrunal Thakur

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

— Eric Hoffer

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Intentions are invisible but they are the true test of character.

— Alfred Armand Montapert

Beauty is not just having a beautiful face, it is having a good mind, a good heart and good will.

— Innah Delos Angeles

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot…

— Anonymous

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

— Thomas Jefferson

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

— Amitava Kumar

“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

— Michel de Montaigne

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

— Paul Eldridge

I believe each character you do, you should add your touch and uniqueness to it.

— Jasmin Bhasin

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

— James N. Frey