Character Quote by Hermann Hesse Download Open image “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” — Hermann Hesse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Courage People Sinister
People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil. — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that… — Daniel Hecht Copy Share Image
I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't. — Eugene Simon Copy Share Image
What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people. — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an… — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity. — David Harbour Copy Share Image
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance and an ingenuous smile; and yet a little of their company leaves the unalterable conviction that there is something radically amiss with their being: that they are… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share
What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The mistaken and unhappy notion that a man is an enduring unity is known to you. It is also known to you that a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“... it would be better for our country and the world in general, if at least the few people who were capable of thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“..it is useless for you to build walls and dormitories and chapels and churches. Death looks through the window and laughs..” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When the world is at peace, when all things are tranquil and all men obey their superiors in all their courses, then music can… — Hermann Hesse 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
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
