- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character Quotes
Character shows up in fiction, politics and physics.
"Character" is used two distinct ways in this collection — as a literary term about how a fictional character carries moral weight, and as a description of personal integrity tied to one's politics and work. For traits and personality more broadly, see Personality quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always a way to bring something, even if it is just the girlfriend role, as long as you're playing it with an idea of who that person is on their own, away from the male character.
- Nov 07, 2020
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
- Enviable
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Foolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.
- Empirically
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- Nov 07, 2020
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020