Quotes about Character

There are no bad plants or bad men. There is only bad husbandry.

There are for each of us several parallelisms between our intelligence, our habits, and our character, which develop without a break, and break only in the great disturbances of life.

Was there a voice that whispered in his ear that he had just passed the most solemn moment of his destiny, that there was no longer a middle course for him; that from now on, he would either be the best of men or he would be the worst of men; that he now had to rise higher, so to speak, than the bishop or fall even lower than the galley slave; that if he wanted to be good, he had to be an angel; that if he wanted to stay bad, he had to be a monster from hell?

A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.

He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.

No man was created good by God, nor can be made entirely bad by man.

True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.

The lancer put on the satisfied smirk of a bandit praised for his honesty.

This book is a drama whose first character is the Infinite. Man is the second.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.