Quotes with character

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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Caroline Lawrence To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Mary Caroline Richards To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Brent Sexton To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.
    Brent Sexton
    American actor (1967 - )
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Willa Cather To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Emma Goldman To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Oscar Levant Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Burgess Owens W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Locke We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean Paul We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Burgess Owens We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and atheism. Or go back to the American way, Judeo-Christian values, which meritocracy is part of it. The idea that content and character and talent are colorblind.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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