Character Quotes · Page 401

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

— Barbara Kingsolver

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

— David O. McKay

Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we can least spare.

— Agnes Strickland

“Virtues are lost in self interest as rivers are lost in the sea.”

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

— Sudeep

Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.

— Dayananda Saraswati

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a…

— Anonymous

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations…

— Madame de Stael

“You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin…

— George Bernard Shaw

It is said that any virtue when taken to an extreme can become a vice. Overscheduling our days would certainly qualify for…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“To be good citizens, responsible workers and providers, and ethical businesspeople, we need a minimum level of knowledge about the way the…

— Shane Snow

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and…

— John Hawkes

I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way…

— Rick Remender

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably…

— Tom Wicker

“Look beyond the talker, and uncover the stalker. If the mind is darkened with character disEASE, the behavior will symptomatically follow...those whose…

— Tracey Bond

The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability.…

— George T. Conway III

Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon'... I just became…

— Rich Mullins

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from…

— Carla Gugino

“Yet, on one point after another, what Jesus is urging on us are behaviors more commonly associated with women then with men:…

— Robert S. McElvaine

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character,…

— Eva Green

I was thinking about that. I was thinking, this is like our Boyhood; this is like our getting together over 12 years…

— Andy Serkis

You can't be too concerned with the philosophical meanings of the character and how it will affect everything else.

— Cameron Monaghan

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

— Laurence Sterne

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

— Shefali Shah

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.

— Voltaire

The Woman' came off the back of a film called 'Offspring' in which I played the same character.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

— Jay Pharoah

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in…

— Hattie McDaniel

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

— Robert M. Hutchins

The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

— Carl Gustav Carus

Part of what makes my character work is the delivery of the truth behind my comments.

— Kenny Omega

To me the voice has always been the way to start any character. Once I find that, I'm good to go.

— Lucy Alibar

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

— Alain de Botton

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on…

— Ann Brashares

I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.

— Richard Marquand

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

— Babu Antony

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

— Scott Speedman