Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in… — Joseph Addison
I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger… — Denise Richards
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like… — Thomas Jane
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Most women have no characters at all. — Alexander Pope
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation. — Thomas Jefferson
Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do. — Morris Mandel
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing. — Michael J. Rosen
Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance. — Marion LeRoy Burton
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. — Takeshi Kitano
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each… — Richard Owen
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat
I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially in comedy. Their… — Jay Baruchel
There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Money alone cannot build character or transform evil into good. It cries for full partnership with leaders of character and good will who value good… — Unknown Author
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility… — Maria Jane McIntosh
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features… — William Grant Bangerter
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color,… — Yves Klein
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. — Jennifer Beals
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann
Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character… — Unknown Author
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single… — Unknown Author

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