Character Quotes · Page 272

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character.

— Richa Pallod

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

— Henry Clay

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

— William Shakespeare

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail…

— Zoë Heller

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

— George Eliot

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

— Paul Haggis

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

— Neil Cross

The more I'm here in L.A. talking to people, the more I believe that what I've been doing is right, and that's…

— Vicky Krieps

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for…

— Scott Glenn

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore…

— Sophie Kinsella

It's not the mistake a person makes that defines them, it's how they react to it,and what they do to fix it.…

— Riley Barta

Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

— Matthew Kelly

“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He,…

— Plutarch

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who…

— Kit Harington

“I never want to be the type of person remembered for vanity or materialism; only by the content of my true character…

— Pauline Seaport

I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow…

— Paul Dalio

Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money…

— Richard Halverson

It is nice that we finished the game today. At the end we finished the series with a convincing victory against Bangladesh.…

— Mahela Jayawardene

There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden…

— Michael Chabon

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for…

— Anonymous

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you…

— Grace Jones

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is…

— George R. R. Martin

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.”

— Annabel Lyon

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is…

— Peter Kreeft

If anyone tells you that a man has changed his character, don't believe it.

— Vikrant Parsai

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

Pressure builds character and allows to handle what else is coming.

— Sarah Palin

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

— Ayn Rand

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

— Anonymous

At first you struggle to earn name, fame and reputation, then you struggle to maintain it and at last you struggle to…

— Anonymous

I don't hate anybody. My character is one thing, but me as an individual is completely different.

— Larry the Cable Guy

The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

— Luc de Clapiers

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

— Confucius

“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”

— Alphonse Karr

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

— Lily Tomlin

Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.

— James Frain