Alan Lee Quotes, Character Quotes, Legends Quotes

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Silly Quotes , Character Quotes

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

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Tags : Adam Johnson Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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

The presidency is a serious job that requires sound judgment and good ideas, and there's no doubt in my mind that Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Character Quotes

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

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , Past Quotes

America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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