Character Quotes · Page 369

Character is like a pregnancy, you cannot hide it no matter what you do.

— Kontihene

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

— Audrey Hepburn

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The beauty about the 'Mahabharat' is that every character has shades of grey.

— Puneet Issar

The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices

— Paul Valery

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“... how much patience is a virtue, how much rage is a necessity?”

— Ingrid Bengis

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible…

— George Eads

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

— Charles Francis Adams Jr

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by…

— Sam Houston

“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability…

— Joan Acocella

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but…

— Susan Sarandon

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the…

— Jason Lee

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened…

— Susan Cain

“One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some…

— Saint Bernard

I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty…

— Al Yankovic

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . .…

— Daniel Hecht

Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other…

— Steven Pinker

“This striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right—this action was…

— Ray Smith

If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the…

— Anonymous

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Certainly if it's something you created, like Gargoyles was for me... on the one hand it becomes you and the other writers…

— Greg Weisman

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

— Ben Mendelsohn

The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

— Mariana Klaveno

I used to watch 'Aliens', and I just found Sigourney Weaver's character so empowering.

— Katie Melua

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

— Geena Davis

It is in the qualities of character of self-respect and trustworthiness that our value to our friends and community lies.

— Anonymous

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

— Norman Lear

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

— Douglas Trumbull

Your true character is most accurately measured by how u treat those who can do nothing for you!

— Ritu Ghatourey

I only want to exist as a character. I don't want people to think of the actor Lee Je-hoon when they see…

— Lee Je-hoon

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

— Joseph Addison

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

— Joe Zee

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

— Jean Paul

Great, now I’ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.

— Ilona Andrews

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life…

— Leonardo da Vinci

I love playing villains. When you're a bad guy, you get to do many real nasty things. It's a lot of fun.

— Kurtwood Smith