Character Quote by Ben Robertson

“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”

— László Krasznahorkai

“I have worked with that ancient, fragmented, and incomplete narrative, with its barbarians, dragons, sunken cities, reeds and memory marks, twin-bladed warrior women, child…

— Samuel R. Delany

“Culture is not something you put on like a ready-made suit of clothes, but a nourishment you absorb to build up your personality, just…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become…

— Theodore Dalrymple

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

— Johan Huizinga

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

— Herbert Read

“Character is developed out of the choices that we make each day.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

“characters as rich and complex as those we believe ourselves to be”

— Thomas C. Foster

“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.”

— Manfred Kuehn

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred…

— Robert E. Howard

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

— Edward T. Hall

To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards…

— H. P. Lovecraft