Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
Character Quotes
A team that has character doesn’t need stimulation.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
I’ll never discuss my lawyer’s character in his absence, so let’s discuss his absence of character!
Everyone can play the mummer’s part, and represent an honest personage on the stage; but inwardly, within his own bosom, where all is permitted us, where all is concealed, to keep a duel role there, that’s the point.
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.
It is often temperament which makes men brave and women chaste.
Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
I had laid it down as a law to myself, to take no notice of the thousand calumnies issued against me. But to trust my character to my own conduct, and the good sense and candor of my fellow citizens.
