Mark Twain Quotes, Character Quotes, Animal Quotes

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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

If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.

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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Found Quotes

Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

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The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

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Tags : Adam Garcia Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character 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

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Echoes Quotes

Men should be what they seem.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Littles Quotes

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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

If you judge the character, you cant play it.

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Tags : Alan Rickman Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Gun Quotes