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Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

» Rowan Atkinson (1956-?) English Comedian

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

» Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859) British historian, whig politician, essayist and poet

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

» Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) British philosopher

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

» Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author[Nobel Prize in literature in 1919]

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice insid

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

» Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

» Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German author[Nobel Prize in literature in 1919]

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

» William Hazlitt (1778-1830) British essayist and literary critic

Character is a journey, not a destination.

» William J. Clinton (1946-?) American Politician

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