Character Quotes

An empty man is full of himself.

Edward Abbey

Even if a river flows with milk, a dog can take in only one lick at a time

Tamil proverb

Even if the tiger is hungry,it wont eat grass.

Tamil proverb

Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character.

Tomas Young

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Heywood Broun

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Nicolas Chamfort

I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.

Lois McMaster Bujold

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

He had a curiously womanish face, and, in direct contradiction to his real character, there seemed to be little strength in it.

Isa Bowman

Costner's film captured the main character's motives, while removing 30 IQ points.

William M. Kucmierowski

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.

Martin Buber