T. S. Eliot Quotes, Passion Quotes, Character Quotes

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

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Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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It is character that counts in a nation as in a man.

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I am the character you are not supposed to like.

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The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Party Quotes , Character Quotes

I love characters that are going through turmoil. To be honest, I love characters with conflict. I love characters who are really going through an emotional journey; whether it's a super-dark-crazy journey or a really relatable guy.

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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.

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

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Evil 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.

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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Reflection Quotes

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Angel Quotes

The first diabolical character who intruded himself on my peaceful youth (as I called to mind that day at Dullborough), was a certain Captain Murderer. This wretch must have been an off-shoot of the Blue Beard family, but I had no suspicion of the consanguinity in those times. His warning name would seem to have awakened no general prejudice against him, for he was admitted into the best society and possessed immense wealth. Captain Murderer's mission was matrimony, and the gratification of a cannibal appetite with tender brides.

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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