CHARACTER QUOTES III

quotations about character

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The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct, betray his opinion of your character.

ARTHUR HELPS

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Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset. A man should give us a sense of mass.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Character is what a person is in the dark.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

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Character, like wine or cold tea in a bottle, takes its shape from the environment.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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One who stultifies his own character in desperate attempts to please everybody is called a "Gentleman."

ABRAHAM MILLER

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Perhaps the natural character of a man may be best seen before breakfast. The world is created anew for us every morning, and he is just then reissued, as it were, from the hands of nature, with all his original peculiarities fresh upon him.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

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And so it becomes perfectly clear that in the heavenly country, where all character is like a crystal sea, everybody can see to the bottom of everybody, and everybody finds delight in the transparency, because in that country there is unlimited human communion, and no one harbors anything which he wants to have concealed.

DR. JOWETT

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There are often two characters of a man--that which is believed in by people in general, and that which he enjoys among his associates. It is supposed, but vainly, that the latter is always a more accurate approximation to the truth, whereas in reality it is often a part which he performs to admiration: while the former is the result of certain minute traits, certain inflexions of voice and countenance, which cannot be discussed, but are felt as it were instinctively by his domestics and by the outer world. The impressions arising from these slight circumstances he is able to efface from the minds of his constant companions, or from habit they have ceased to observe them.

ARTHUR HELPS

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There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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'Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn.

ALEXANDER POPE

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Men love to contradict their general character. Thus a man is of a gloomy and suspicious temperament, is deemed by all morose, and ere long finds out the general opinion. He then suddenly deviates into some occasional acts of courtesy. Why? Not because he ought, not because his nature is changed; but because he dislikes being thoroughly understood. He will not be the thing whose behaviour on any occasion the most careless prophet can with certainty foretell.

ARTHUR HELPS

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The tragedies of most of our modern poets fail in the rendering of character; and of poets in general this is often true.

ARISTOTLE

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Concerning character, we sometimes judge of the whole by its parts.

NORMAN MACDONALD

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The difficulty of repairing character tempts men sometimes to neglect it; and the ease with which it is at other times established, is the true reason of its frequent default.

NORMAN MACDONALD

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Character is largely the result of the kind and quality of seed-thoughts one entertains in consciousness and transmits to the subconscious mind.

WALTER MATTHEWS

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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

ARTHUR HELPS

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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

LORD ACTON

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My road must be through Character to Power: I will try no other course, and I am sanguine enough to believe that this course, though not perhaps the quickest, is the surest.

LORD CANNING

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