Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Real Quotes, Character Quotes

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

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See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.

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"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Long Quotes

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

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Tags : Alan Jay Lerner Quotes , Character Quotes , Faces Quotes

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Character Quotes , Coward Quotes

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past.

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There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Action Quotes

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes