Character Quotes · Page 446

When things get complicated, you have to bring out your character and put more wood on the fire.

— Ricky Rubio

I can play to the fullest but not within a 100% all in, because good friends can turn into evil.

— Sean X

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

— Richard Steele

The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

— Walter Scott

“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,”

— Oscar Wilde

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

— Tullian Tchividjian

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

— Wes Bentley

“She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now”

— Michael Robotham

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you…

— Anonymous

“He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do…

— Jane Austen

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I watched every single Bond movie three or four times, taking in everything I could about how the character had been portrayed…

— Daniel Craig

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial…

— John Ruskin

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's…

— Gwendoline Christie

I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done…

— James McAvoy

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government…

— James Madison

Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For…

— Napoleon Hill

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in…

— Anonymous

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people…

— Bruce Springsteen

There's always a villain in every book, in every movie. In every story you have the hero and what he wants, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

I've played my fair share of unpleasant character, and I have to tell you that you sleep better when you're playing fun…

— James D'arcy

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Ah! In fact there are two moralities ... The petty one, the conventional one, the one devised by men, that keeps changing…

— Gustave Flaubert

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

— Archie Panjabi

People will try to confuse your meekness for weakness, but no matter what never let anyone draw you out of your character.

— Larry Cowell

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

— Phyllis Smith

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love the idea of playing a character, to get that chance to be somebody completely different.

— Eoin Macken

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

— Arthur Miller

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

— Paul Wesley

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”

— Multatuli

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

— Oscar Wilde

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

— Sándor Márai

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.

— Dave Ramsey

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

— Napoleon Hill

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I only watch 'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' on television. It's my favourite show and I absolutely love the bubbly character of Ruhi.

— Jeetendra

“All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana