Character Quotes

• "Characters never change. Opinions alter,--characters are only developed."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!"
  By: Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (ch. XXXIV)
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• "O Mrs. Higden, Mrs. Higden, you was a woman and a mother, and a mangler in a million million."
  By: Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (ch. IX)
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• "I know their tricks and their manners."
  By: Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (bk. II, ch. I)
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• "He's tough, ma'am--tough is J.B.; tough and de-vilish sly."
  By: Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (ch. VII)
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• "The most striking characters are sometimes the product of an infinity of little accidents."
  By: Georges Jacques Danton
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• "He never unbuttons himself. [Lat., Il ne se deboutonna jamais.]"
  By: according to Croker, said of Sir Robert Peel
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• "Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time, Not to be pass'd."
  By: William Cowper, Task (bk. III, l. 75)
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• "Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy."
  By: William Cowper, Table Talk (l. 588)
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• "He cannot drink five bottles, bilk the score, Then kill a constable, and drink five more; But he can draw a pattern, make a tart, And has ladies' etiquette by heart."
  By: William Cowper, Progress of Error (l. 191)
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• "An honest man, close-button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within."
  By: William Cowper, Epistle to Joseph Hill
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• "Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character."
  By: Calvin Coolidge
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• "Character is the only secure foundation of the state."
  By: Calvin Coolidge
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• "Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "There are some characters who appear to superficial observers to be full of contradiction, change and inconsistency, and yet they that are in the secret of what such persons are driving at, know that they are the very reverse of what they appear to be, and that they have one single object in view, to which they as pertinaciously adhere through every circumstance of change, as the hound to the hare, through all her mazes and doublings. We know that a windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weather-cock, and assumes ten different positions in a day."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "The two most precious things this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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