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What God lacks is convictions – stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something – not try to be everything. Mark Twain, notebook 1898
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the character of men with perfect accuracy, from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversation, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real character. Maria Edgeworth, 1767-1849, Castle Rackwent, 1800
We kid ourselves on we’ve got free will. But we’ve only got the free will to do what our upbringing tells us to do. Take me: I’m a flawed character; the flaw being I haven’t got any character. Rab C Nesbitt: New, BBC 1988
Giving style to one’s character – a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye. Friedrich Nietzsche
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche
Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King
Respect: respect for one’s elders shows character. Because you are a character doesn’t mean that you have character. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Wolf
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans. Ronald Reagan, The New York Times 15th January 1981
A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. Charlie Chaplin
Action is character. F Scott Fitzgerald
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals. David Hume
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
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. George Washington
Character is much easier kept than recovered. Thomas Paine
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught. J C Watts
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Booker T Washington
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Alan Dershowitz
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back. Abigail van Buren
The discipline of desire is the background of character. John Locke
Character is destiny. Heraclitus
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
Fate and character are the same conception. Novalis, 1772-1801, German poet & novelist
You did it ’cause you had to be a character, had to be one all the time. Well, I don’t think that I can put up with your character very much longer, Rumpole. Rumpole of the Bailey s6e1: Rumpole a la Carte, Hilda to Rumpole, ITV 1991
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. George Washington
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He had the regular character of a tramp – abject, envious, a jackal’s character. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Then I had this uncontrollable urge to join the communist party and sleep with well-spoken black girls. The Comic Strip Presents s3e4: The Yob, Yob turned Yuppie, Channel 4 1998