• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Category Wise Quotes >> Character Quotes
  • Character Quotes   775
  • We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes
  • I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Home Quotes
  • Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Character Quotes , Voice Quotes
  • Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Taken Quotes , Character Quotes
  • The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Taken Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes
  • In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Character Quotes , Differences Quotes