Character Quote by Owen Wister Download Open image “An aristocrat in morals as in mind.” — Owen Wister ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Mind Moral Psychology
What is an aristocrat? A woman who is never sullied by vulgarity, although she may be surrounded by it. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment. — Barbara Branden Copy Share Image
A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for—leaving a higher motive out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A man who pays respect to the greats paves the way for his own greatness. — Walter Ngele Copy Share Image
The professional moralist in our day is a man of less than average intelligence. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.” — Owen Wister 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
