Abuse Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

— Annette Bening

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.

— Michael Josephson

Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as…

— Sidney Greenberg

Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, words and thoughts: daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles…

— John Ross Macduff

Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and…

— Arthur Trudeau

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make…

— Siri Hustvedt

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

— Tina Fey

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and…

— Michael Josephson

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human…

— Anonymous

“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know…

— Pierre Bayard