Character Quotes · Page 283

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

— Timothy Radcliffe

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

— Giancarlo Esposito

To refrain from evil and from strong drink and to be always, steadfast in virtue; this is the good luck.

— Anonymous

I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.

— Helen Oyeyemi

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

— Alexa Vega

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

— Morgan Brittany

“we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either…

— Plutarch

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the…

— Michael J. Fox

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount…

— Brendon Urie

You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the…

— Dianna Agron

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus…

— Kwame Kilpatrick

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an…

— Marcelene Cox

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly…

— Charles Babbage

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought…

— Andy Stanley

Listen to the melody and the feel of the singer, and try to get inside the character of the guy who's singing…

— Mike Campbell

“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human…

— H. L. Mencken

I think actually any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they…

— Chris Avellone

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others.…

— Nicolas Chamfort

I tend to get reactions just by being on screen, because I guess I'm physically queer-coded or something. Especially with 'Star Wars;'…

— Katy O'Brian

“Education is an opportunity, nothing more. It will not guarantee success, or happiness, or contentment, or riches. Everything depends upon what development…

— George Fillmore Swain

If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny…

— Pat Schneider

Who is the ultimate dreamer? Call it as you will: God, higher consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you. .. One dream, one…

— Wayne Dyer

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to…

— Charlize Theron

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

— Derek Jeter

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'

— Jose Saramago

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a…

— Ben Stiller

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

— Jeff Van Gundy

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

— Aristotle

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

— Emilie de Ravin

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

— Ron Perlman

I like playing the bad guys. It's a way of exercising and exorcising my own personal demons.

— W. Earl Brown

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Gratior est pulchro veniens de corpore virtus—Virtue appears peculiarly graceful when associated with beauty.”

— Matthew Henry

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

— John C. Maxwell

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

— Oscar Levant

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my…

— Kartik Aaryan