CHARACTER QUOTES III

quotations about character

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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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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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'Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn.

ALEXANDER POPE

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

MALCOLM FORBES

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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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Character is what a person is in the dark.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

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It is an error to suppose that no man understands his own character. Most persons know even their failings very well, only they persist in giving them names different from those usually assigned by the rest of the world; and they compensate for this mistake by naming, at first sight, with singular accuracy, those very same failings in others.

ARTHUR HELPS

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

NORMAN MACDONALD

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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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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

LORD ACTON

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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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If one could only tear down his character, as old buildings are torn down, and build it up anew, as these are rebuilt! And so, in effect, it can be. A noble property of character is, that it is susceptible of improvement.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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