Quotes about Character of a Man

The character of a man is known from his conversations. Votes: 5

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.... Votes: 3

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men. Votes: 3

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of. Votes: 3

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 3

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience. Votes: 3

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. Votes: 3

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. Votes: 3

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be. Votes: 3

On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Votes: 3

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. Votes: 3

Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him. Votes: 3

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better. Votes: 3

The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried is the character of a man. This is true. What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried. Votes: 3

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. Votes: 3

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is. Votes: 3

It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.' Votes: 3

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent? Votes: 3

The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations in his conduct; if there are not, we may blame his manner of judging, but we are not the less bound to esteem him. Votes: 3

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? Votes: 3

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart. Votes: 3

Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly... Votes: 3

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. Votes: 2

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. Votes: 2

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. Votes: 2

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. Votes: 2

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect. Votes: 2

I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles. Votes: 2

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. Votes: 2

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Votes: 2

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character. Votes: 2

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. Votes: 2

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Votes: 2

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character. Votes: 2

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor. Votes: 2

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are. Votes: 2

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. Votes: 2

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. Votes: 2

I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure. Votes: 2

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! Votes: 2

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character. Votes: 2

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. Votes: 1

A man's character is his fate. Votes: 0

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Votes: 0

Man shows his character best in trifles. Votes: 0

The greatest possesion of man is character Votes: 0

A man's character is his guardian divinity. Votes: 0

Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity Votes: 0

The man that makes a character, makes foes. Votes: 0

Man's character is the product of his premises. Votes: 0

A man without enemies is a man without character. Votes: 0

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous. Votes: 0

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. Votes: 0

A man's character is best described in his epitaph Votes: 0

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Votes: 0

A man without enemies is a man without character. Votes: 0

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Votes: 0

A man of bad character punishes his own soul. Votes: 0

The history of a man is in his character. Votes: 0

Character is what a man is in the dark. Votes: 0

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. Votes: 0

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control. Votes: 0

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue. Votes: 0

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. Votes: 0

To find a man's true character, play golf with him. Votes: 0

Good moral character is the first essential in a man. Votes: 0

A man kept his character even when he was insane. Votes: 0

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. Votes: 0

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. Votes: 0

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. Votes: 0

A man with no enemies is a man with no character. Votes: 0

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. Votes: 0

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Votes: 0

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps Votes: 0

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character Votes: 0

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. Votes: 0

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. Votes: 0

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does. Votes: 0

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Votes: 0

A man must be very inert to have no character at all. Votes: 0

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man. Votes: 0

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." Votes: 0

It is character that counts in a nation as in a man. Votes: 0

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. Votes: 0

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements Votes: 0

A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine. Votes: 0

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. Votes: 0

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. Votes: 0

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character. Votes: 0

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. Votes: 0

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God. Votes: 0

The sole purpose of universal justice is to keep man's character in balance Votes: 0

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. Votes: 0

Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? Votes: 0

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom. Votes: 0

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. Votes: 0

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor. Votes: 0

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. Votes: 0

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired. Votes: 0

[Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character. Votes: 0

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type. Votes: 0

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility. Votes: 0

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers. Votes: 0

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character. Votes: 0

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given. Votes: 0

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. Votes: 0

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Votes: 0

I was always a character actor, basically, that sometimes looks like a leading man. Votes: 0

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong. Votes: 0

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. Votes: 0

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love Votes: 0

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character. Votes: 0

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. Votes: 0

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. Votes: 0

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows. Votes: 0

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. Votes: 0

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. Votes: 0

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. Votes: 0

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves Votes: 0

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be. Votes: 0

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind. Votes: 0

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man. Votes: 0

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. Votes: 0

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. Votes: 0

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly. Votes: 0

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself Votes: 0

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another. Votes: 0

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. Votes: 0

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching. Votes: 0

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense. Votes: 0

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. Votes: 0

You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity.. Votes: 0

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character? Votes: 0

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character. Votes: 0

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. Votes: 0

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor. Votes: 0

Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. Votes: 0

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. Votes: 0

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. Votes: 0

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. Votes: 0

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. Votes: 0

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. Votes: 0

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves. Votes: 0

A GOOD man values his INTEGRITY and CHARACTER. NEVER deal with one that has no SELF RESPECT! Votes: 0

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. Votes: 0

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. Votes: 0

A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is. Votes: 0

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. Votes: 0

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics. Votes: 0

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. Votes: 0

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character. Votes: 0

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Votes: 0

On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character. Votes: 0

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor. Votes: 0

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer. Votes: 0

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart. Votes: 0

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. Votes: 0

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance. Votes: 0

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Votes: 0

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization. Votes: 0

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels. Votes: 0

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character. Votes: 0

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. Votes: 0

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. Votes: 0

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. Votes: 0

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides. Votes: 0

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse? Votes: 0

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others. Votes: 0

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. Votes: 0

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching. Votes: 0

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology. Votes: 0

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man. Votes: 0

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? Votes: 0

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. Votes: 0

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame. Votes: 0

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Votes: 0

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man. Votes: 0

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others. Votes: 0

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. Votes: 0

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. Votes: 0

[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. Votes: 0

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm. Votes: 0

A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs. Votes: 0

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man. Votes: 0

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man. Votes: 0

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. Votes: 0

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them Votes: 0

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. Votes: 0

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. Votes: 0

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. Votes: 0

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.... Votes: 0

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. Votes: 0

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Votes: 0

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character. Votes: 0

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? Votes: 0

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Votes: 0

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. Votes: 0

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors. Votes: 0

A great man need not be virtuous, nor his opinions right, but he must have a firm mind, a distinctive luminous character. Votes: 0

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character. Votes: 0

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character. Votes: 0

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard. Votes: 0

The measure of a man’s character is not determined by how he handles his wins, but how he handles his failures. Votes: 0

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all. Votes: 0

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. Votes: 0

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character. Votes: 0

To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water. Votes: 0

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post. Votes: 0

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing. Votes: 0

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity. Votes: 0

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. Votes: 0

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding. Votes: 0

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States. Votes: 0

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses. Votes: 0

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. Votes: 0

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. Votes: 0

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton. Votes: 0

He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. Votes: 0

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed. Votes: 0

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor. Votes: 0

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Votes: 0

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives? Votes: 0

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. Votes: 0

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. Votes: 0

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character. Votes: 0

it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole. Votes: 0

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach. Votes: 0

Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses. Votes: 0

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. Votes: 0

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man. Votes: 0

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. Votes: 0

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. Votes: 0

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. Votes: 0

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. Votes: 0

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies . Votes: 0

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. Votes: 0

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character... Votes: 0

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Strength of character and inner fortitude, however, are decisive factors. The confidence of the man in the ranks rests upon a man's strength of character. Votes: 0

As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a man of strong character, deep conviction, unforgettable charm, and wonderful wit. Votes: 0

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. Votes: 0

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. Votes: 0

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play. Votes: 0

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say. Votes: 0

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions. Votes: 0

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work. Votes: 0

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] Votes: 0

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor. Votes: 0

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. Votes: 0

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. Votes: 0

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. Votes: 0

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments. Votes: 0

Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing. Votes: 0

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. Votes: 0

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. Votes: 0

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. Votes: 0

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself. Votes: 0

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. Votes: 0

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. Votes: 0

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. Votes: 0

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man. Votes: 0

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. Votes: 0

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. Votes: 0

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely. Votes: 0

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man. Votes: 0

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character. Votes: 0

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character. Votes: 0

The strength of a man is in his character. A strong man is a great man of wisdom who understands, his top priority is to his family. Votes: 0

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. Votes: 0

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character Votes: 0

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William. Votes: 0

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. Votes: 0

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival, Votes: 0

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character. Votes: 0

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival. Votes: 0

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. Votes: 0

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man." Votes: 0

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion. Votes: 0

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. Votes: 0

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. Votes: 0

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified. Votes: 0

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. Votes: 0

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. Votes: 0

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. Votes: 0

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing Votes: 0

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity. Votes: 0

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. Votes: 0

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies. Votes: 0

I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion. Votes: 0

The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. Votes: 0

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. Votes: 0

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. Votes: 0

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work. Votes: 0

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character. Votes: 0

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking. Votes: 0

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character. Votes: 0

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan. Votes: 0

Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character, and passions, his mistakes, and weaknesses."--Democritus An Abundance of Katherines---John Green Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. Votes: 0

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character. Votes: 0

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man. Votes: 0

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. Votes: 0

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It's a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil. Votes: 0

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. Votes: 0

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. Votes: 0

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin. Votes: 0