Character Quote by Charles Dickens

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore,…

— Anonymous

“He had never regarded other men as anything but puppets of a sort, created to fill up an empty world. He divided them into…

— Guy de Maupassant

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

— George Eliot

To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real…

— Jane Austen

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

— Ernest Hemingway

“He hovered, as it were, on the fringes of both the scientific and the classical worlds, making, apparently, no deep impression on either. Perhaps…

— Ruth D'Arcy Thompson

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He was far from handsome certainly; and was drest in a snuff-coloured suit, of an uncouth make at the best, which, being shrunk with…

— Charles Dickens

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

— Gustave Flaubert

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth