Adam Haslett Quotes, Character Quotes, Trying Quotes

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shameful, but then when you read those pages over and you see they have no life to them so you throw them away and force yourself to be more honest. So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

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Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

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

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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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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.

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

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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

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Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Character Quotes , Soul 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.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Character Quotes

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Character Quotes

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

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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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Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

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

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes