Character Quotes · Page 461

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

— Christopher Hitchens

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

— Anonymous

“a Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,”

— Diana Gabaldon

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

— Richard Armitage

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

— Herman Edwards

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

— Thomas Huxley

When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult.

— Ryan Murphy

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I…

— Michael Sheen

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I…

— Anonymous

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me. If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for…

— Paula Malcomson

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist.…

— Jeanne Moreau

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence.…

— Orison Swett Marden

Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose…

— Thomas Jefferson

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of…

— Jimmy O. Yang

“Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal [he wrote to Abigail]. But there is no encouragement to be faithful. Neither profit, nor…

— David McCullough

The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally…

— Jonathan Lethem

Some people say, 'Oh you're a weird queen. You're a punk queen.' All queens are weird! I don't care if you're in…

— Sharon Needles

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have…

— Charles Trevelyan

“Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is…

— Plato

It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can…

— David Hume

'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series…

— Essie Davis

“What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of…

— Alain de Botton

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

— Victor Hugo

In 'Anniyan,' the character I did had three different looks in the film, and I was able to carry it off.

— Vikram

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

— Saoirse Ronan

Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find…

— Alex Borstein

To get into the character you have to really use your imagination.

— Michael Stahl-David

My favorite thing to do is transform. The further the character is away from me the more I enjoy it.

— Erica Schroeder

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

— Eliza Lynn Linton

It is easy for people to sit behind their laptops and assassinate somebody's character.

— Ishita Dutta

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

— Cate Blanchett

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.

— Havelock Ellis

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

— William Penn

“Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.”

— Ron Brackin

It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be…

— David Chase

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in…

— Peter M. Brant

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

— Michael Eric Dyson