Quotes about Character

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

A distinguishing taste of authentic Christians is their distaste for evil.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.