Character Quotes - page 11

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. (Graham Greene)
That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. View quote
Graham Greene
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. View quote
Solon
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes. View quote
Francis Parkman
In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth. View quote
Francis Parkman
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial? View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot. View quote
S. M. Stirling
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. (James Allen)
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people. View quote
Sam Rayburn
It is not for nothing that Skaldin in one part of his book quotes Adam Smith: we have seen that both his views and the character of his arguments in many respects repeat the theses of that great ideologist of the progressive bourgeoisie. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
[Christ's] character is twofold: like the head of the body in that he is regarded as God and yet comparable to the feet in that he put on humanity for the sake of our salvation, a man of passions like ours. View quote
Eusebius of Caesarea
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of a picture; when these are well established, then I try for subtleties of form and color. I rework the painting constantly and freely, and without any systematic method. View quote
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Well, I think "likability” is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different ... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows. View quote
Louis C.K.
Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people. View quote
António de Oliveira Salazar
The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. (Thomas Carlyle)
I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end. View quote
George C. Marshall
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame. View quote
Cicero
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. View quote
Yves Klein