Ashamed Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering…

— Jacques Barzun

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

— Mark Pellegrino

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

— Jack W. Hayford

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Character is higher than intellect”

— Robin S. Sharma

Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right.

— Arthur Trudeau

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to…

— Aden Young

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

— Andy Weir

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new…

— Robertson Davies

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

— Sándor Márai