Character Quotes · Page 367

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

— Chester Gould

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

— William Shakespeare

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger

I'm going to do my best to channel the character on a spiritual level.

— Vin Diesel

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

— Sallust

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

— Yara Shahidi

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

— Judith Martin

“He is only testing my morals, which is perfectly understandable, because people outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so…

— Matthew Quick

“If you follow someone who's universally viewed as having impeccable character and strong integrity, then you're likely to be viewed the same.…

— James M. Kouzes

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but…

— Uwe Boll

Like one's own children, golf has an uncanny way of endearing itself to us while at the same time evoking every weakness…

— Timothy Gallwey

Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What…

— Gilbert Arenas

We didn't ask for our wombs and ovaries, and this presumption that we have to use them because otherwise it's a waste,…

— Dawn O'Porter

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character…

— Frank Grillo

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside…

— David Frum

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism;…

— Anonymous

I just want to do everything. As broad as that seems, it's kind of the plan. There are so many different genres…

— Vanessa Hudgens

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to…

— Karin Slaughter

“I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they possibly can, and that they will…

— James Madison

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides…

— Michael Schur

Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,…

— Catherine Wilson

I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So…

— Andy Garcia

As a 6-foot, 6-inch, 300-pound black man, I've done everything I can to stay out of that box that Hollywood tries to…

— Omar Benson Miller

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

— Paul Newman

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character…

— Aaron Paul

Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time

— Condoleezza Rice

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

— Burgess Meredith

“Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right…”

— Navonne Johns

Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit.

— Anil Sinha

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

— Willa Cather

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.

— Sprague Grayden

I will be seen as a software engineer in 'Betaludu.' My character is totally different from what I have played in the…

— Vijay Antony

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

— Charles Spurgeon

Character is like a pregnancy, you can never hide it no matter what you do.

— Latest

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

— Fawn M. Brodie

As an actor, it's really exciting and challenging to play a character which is much older than your actual age.

— Nithya Menen