Jane Austen Quotes, Character Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Character Quotes , Vanity Quotes

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adhir Kalyan Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Character Quotes , Science Quotes

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Character Quotes

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al-Jahiz Quotes , Character Quotes , Men 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Country Quotes , Character 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Children Quotes , Character Quotes

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Character Quotes

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Character Quotes , Night Quotes

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes