Character Quotes · Page 344

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

— Don Winslow

“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.”

— G.K. Chesterton

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

— Thomas Carlyle

“One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.”

— Raheel Farooq

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

— Alphonse Karr

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with…

— Joel Kinnaman

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

— Nicole Kidman

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

— Anonymous

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about,…

— William Fichtner

Growing up in northern Kentucky, honesty, integrity and character were revered traits, and - with my family - I looked to the…

— Amy McGrath

Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you…

— Penelope Cruz

Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die…

— Zygmunt Bauman

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character…

— Epictetus

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit…

— John Rhys-Davies

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I would relish a role that really shows a bit of background into how the bad guy got the way he is...…

— Kristian Nairn

“Discovering the inapplicability of Judeo-Christian morality in certain circumstances involving affairs of state can be searing. The rare individuals who have recognized…

— Robert D. Kaplan

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less…

— Edward Gibbon

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words…

— Francine Prose

I obviously love those characters ['The Avengers'] with my whole heart. I was on a one-man "Luke Cage is cool" campaign for…

— Brian Michael Bendis

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a…

— Charles Dickens

“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave…

— Alan Keyes

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

— Charles Bukowski

“Being boring is as likely as being interesting to make one impossible to forget.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob

— Ayn Rand

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

— Edward Abbey

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

— John Green

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

— Ang Lee

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

— Howard Cosell

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

— Cassidy Freeman

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

— Priyanka Chopra

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to.

— Gina Haspel

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

— Billy Sunday

Adversity can do nothing but sculpt the character of the subjected.

— Charlie Butcher

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

— Ray Romano

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson