Oscar Wilde Quotes, Character Quotes, Men 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.

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Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Character Quotes , Weakness Quotes

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Character Quotes

Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.

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Tags : Abbie Cornish Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Character Quotes

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Eye Quotes

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Memories Quotes , Character Quotes

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Photography Quotes , Character Quotes

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

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Tags : Adam Haslett Quotes , Character Quotes , Judging Quotes

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

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Tags : A.M. Homes Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character 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

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Character Quotes , Feelings Quotes

What you are comes to you.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Law Of Attraction Quotes

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Country Quotes , Character Quotes

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Men 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

In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , War Quotes , Character Quotes

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Character Quotes , Community Quotes

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.

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