Character Quotes

If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

Many men, suspected of being good fellows, have, when the evidence was summed up, proved an alibi.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

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.