Virginia Woolf Quotes, Book Quotes, Character Quotes

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

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"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

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The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.

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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

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France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

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As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

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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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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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The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

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We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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Music is a defining element of character.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

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