Quotes about character
character men voice
The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. Johann Kaspar Lavater
character softness
Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
character calmness persons
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
character men manners
As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
character giving giver
The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
character home doors
Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.
character buttons dresses
Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
character passion pride
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
character looks may
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
character laughing tears
If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either. Johanna Lindsey
character development tests
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
character men common-sense
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.
character color yellow
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
character rushing talent
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
character history mankind
The history of mankind is his character.
character literature world
Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
character sea solitude
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
character men
The history of a man is in his character.
character ideas parent
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink. Harlan Coben
character comforting noble
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. Gustave Flaubert
character feel-better thinking
I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea. Greer Garson
character
I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day. Greg Berlanti
character mean writing
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. Gilbert K. Chesterton
character rogues fool
For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. John Dryden
character farce action
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
character home interesting
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. John Mayer
character use language
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. John M. Ford
character play
You have to play your characters, not like them. John Malkovich
character creative advice
It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field. John Lloyd Young
character scripts insight
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
character personality-flaws
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. John Lubbock
character endurance tests
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.
character religion treasure
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. John Locke