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Character Quotes by Mark Twain
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in…
- I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The…
- The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble…
- As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its…
- It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
- Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his…
- One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
- If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
- A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
- It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
- there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes…
- What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
- To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
- There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell