Character Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““You irritate me sublimely. What can it be in me? Is it the relic of a moral sense?”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“(...) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“intended to repel Evil, which are the constant Accompaniment to their Conversations with myself.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
“If anything, I got angry that morning because I was embarrassed. It's hard enough living with my own questionable decisions without some pillar of… — Gaby Dunn Copy Share Image
“You certainly are Lord Know-It-All this evening, aren’t you?” “Only when necessary. Otherwise I try not to let my brilliance overshadow my giving and… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“Has anything in particular been bothering you? Plenty of things. I can't remember some of them, but they piss me off anyway.” — Isamu Fukui Copy Share Image
“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I think that bothers me more than anything. That he could look in my eyes and tell me something that is completely contrary to… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman 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… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
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
