Quotes about Character

Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

Mr Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him.

I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud. And if it's not, she is NOT.

Power, unless it be the power of intellect or virtue, has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures.

although Sydney Carton would never be a lion, he was an amazingly good jackal,

It is remarkable that what we call the world, which is so very credulous in what professes to be true, is most incredulous in what professes to be imaginary; and that, while, every day in real life, it will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtues, it will seldom admit a very strongly-marked character, either good or bad, in a fictitious narrative, to be within the limits of probability.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within