Quotes about Character

sin sneaks up on us over time.

God's work is driven by an agenda so much grander than simply making our lives better. He wants to remake us into his likeness. And that likeness can be seen in Jesus.

We are called to be people of great character so that, when we come in contact with the world, our character influences those around us.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Lord Henry had not yet come in. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens.

Men become old, but they never become good.

It is perfectly monstrous, he said, at last, the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies. The justification of a character in a novel is not that other persons are what they are, but that the author is what he is. Otherwise the novel is not a work of art.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.