Character Quotes · Page 334

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

— Peter Koevari

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

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

— Narendra Modi

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

— Morgan Parker

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

— Anna Silk

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

— George Sand

There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and…

— Todd Farmer

The character of Samantha Jones proved that women over the age of 40 could be magnificently sexy and attractive to men of…

— Claudia Winkleman

I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the…

— Adam Driver

People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for…

— Mark Hamill

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a…

— Marc Guggenheim

I basically wanted to use the experiences I've gone through, the struggles of my childhood and kind of use the character that…

— Liv Morgan

No matter what world you're creating, whether it be a real world or a fantasy world, you still have to make the…

— David Nutter

Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are…

— Yael Stone

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of…

— Henry Ford

I'm not a person that thinks back in the first place. I think forward. And it's always been less that people didn't…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want…

— George Saunders

Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position…

— Tacitus

Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued…

— Aristotle

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,…

— Laura Linney

On stage, you have the instant reaction. I'm in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always…

— Jim Breuer

Really it's all about what's inside the Superman suit. How you feel about yourself when you put that on because it's very…

— Brandon Routh

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

— Holliday Grainger

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

— Sam Heughan

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

— Ricky Steamboat

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

— Milo Yiannopoulos

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— David Hume

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

— Jonah Hill

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enthusiasm is greatest asset in the world; it is the difference between nonexistence and excellence.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You can transform into any character of any age. It's all in the mind.

— Shruti Haasan

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

— Jasper Fforde

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.

— Jessica Valenti

I change my mind so much, you know? It's hard to be just one character.

— Jesse Rutherford

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

— Robert E. Lee

“Your Grace, I have certain moral objections to ending the world as our race knows it”?”

— Rory Ni Coileain