Character Quotes · Page 256

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

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

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

— Joshua Emmet

Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew.

— Jon Glaser

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

— Mary Connealy

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a…

— Jon Tenney

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they…

— Alexandre Dumas

Thrilled that Gov. Romney enjoys my old character. I enjoyed the character he used 2 b 2. If he'd embrace that again,…

— Jason Alexander

It's interesting to talk to my mom about her character in Wild at heart, because she sees her as a mother who's…

— Laura Dern

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with…

— Johan Huizinga

“While having a strong character foundation may not sell newspapers, increase TV ratings, or make a person famous, it's essential for building…

— Susan C. Young

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

There is more for women in terms of character roles now. Judi Dench and Maggie Smith have constantly changed over the years…

— Imogen Poots

I have to phrase this perfectly: I'm just not convinced that the attention we give to creating what we think of as…

— Stephen Dillane

Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary…

— Karen Russell

I believe that things kind of happen for a reason. But at the same time my real mission is just to continue…

— Julian McMahon

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly…

— Lionel Shriver

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is,…

— Alexei Panshin

There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,…

— Ayn Rand

Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken…

— Nick Denton

Now I am an old hag, I get to play much more interesting characters.

— Joan Greenwood

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

— Ovid

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

— Ruth Benedict

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

— Helen Mirren

If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

— Nirmala Srivastava

I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

— Alan Rickman

Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.

— LeCrae

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”

— Aristotle

I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.

— Jessie James Decker

“Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.”

— Thomas M. Disch

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

— Charles Hodge

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray