Character Quotes

• "It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "The fine tints and fluent curves which constitute beauty of character."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• "Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy."
  By: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.
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• "No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something."
  By: Robert Browning, Men and Women--Bishop Blougram's Apology
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• "Give me the character and I will forecast the event. Character, it has in substance been said, is "victory organized.""
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "Character is very much a matter of health."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "All men are like in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ."
  By: Christian Nestell Bovee
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• "A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.""
  By: Lady Marguerite Blessington, Countess of Blessington
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• "A great unrecognized incapacity. [Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]"
  By: Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, of Napoleon III, while minister to Paris
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• "Happiness is not the end of life; character is."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "Character, like porcelain ware, must be printed before it is glazed. There can be no change after it is burned in."
  By: Henry Ward Beecher
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• "Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms."
  By: James Beattie, The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 11)
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• "Knight without fear and without reproach. [Fr., Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche.]"
  By: applied to Chevalier Pierre du Terrail Bayard
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