Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. — Albert Camus
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. — Kirsten Dunst
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster
So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit? — Rio Ferdinand
He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no… — Cristiano Ronaldo
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will… — Aldo Leopold
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them… — Antonin Scalia
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant… — James Freeman Clarke
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will… — Mahatma Gandhi
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade. — Saint Augustine
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and… — Pope Pius XII
It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about… — David Henry
The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our… — Ezra Taft Benson
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is… — Emanuel Swedenborg
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold… — George W. Bush
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living, that free scope… — John Stuart Mill

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