Character Quote by E. V. Lucas Download Open image “Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.” — E. V. Lucas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Enough Fewer Idle Men Work
No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
The day has gone by into the dim vista of the past when idleness was considered a virtue in woman. — Caroline A Huling Copy Share Image
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin',… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image