Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and… — Joyce Cary
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. — Kurt Vonnegut
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain… — Hippolyte Taine
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. — John Bartholomew Gough
If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can… — Daisaku Ikeda
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really… — Alan Dean Foster
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage. — Nelson A. Miles
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon
It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care. — Edward Abbey
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. — Edward Abbey
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological… — Edward Abbey
The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of… — Thomas Jefferson
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy… — George Jones
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. — Mercy Otis Warren
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects… — Samuel Adams
The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. — Thomas Jefferson
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.… — George Washington
Amongst other strange things said of me, I hear it is said by the deists that I am one of the number; and indeed, that… — Patrick Henry

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