Character Quotes

I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

The leopard does not change his spots.

He is not great who is not greatly good.