Character Quotes · Page 383

If you would test the character of anything, you only need to enquire whether that thing leads you to God or away…

— Watchman Nee

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, 'Let's give him a promotion.

— Stephen Colbert

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

— Christian Louboutin

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

— Ayn Rand

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

— Samuel Smiles

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

— Eric Zorn

I have done 'Shivalinga' because I liked the story. My character, especially, is very impressive.

— Ritika Singh

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

— Winston Churchill

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one…

— Slash

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real…

— Ayn Rand

You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side…

— Anna Kendrick

Fiction writers learn about the development of metaphor, the use of rhythm, the way that language is compacted in order to express…

— Edward Hirsch

That's what I like particularly about 'Industry,' that Harper, this character, the entire show is not trying to tell anybody anything about…

— Myha'la

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try…

— Ingmar Bergman

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't…

— Monica Lewinsky

I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm…

— Camren Bicondova

In terms of morality, we can be very narrowly focused. So convinced of our point of view and righteousness, and it just…

— George Harrar

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves…

— Alan Barth

The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those…

— Marina Warner

I actually read 'The Last Jedi' before 'The Force Awakens' came out. It totally helped me, though! The idea of this franchise…

— Kelly Marie Tran

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like…

— Jean Paul

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least…

— Virginia Woolf

“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then…

— Salman Rushdie

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.

— Vin Diesel

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them…

— Al Pacino

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.

— Ivan Panin

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

All the getting you as a moral or immortal. Whatever as in your fate.you get it.

— Mak_786

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

— Cornelius Nepos

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.”

— C.G. Jung

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.

— Gerard Way

When the actors look your character, half the problems are solved.

— Priyadarshan

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

— Lord Chesterfield

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

— Roger Penrose

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

— D. Todd Christofferson