Plato Quotes, Plato Quotes, Character Quotes

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

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Romeo is the most misunderstood character in literature, I think. He's hardcore to play because he's displaying the characteristics of Hamlet at the beginning, and, well, then everything else happens.

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Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Sound Quotes

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just love characters and stories with conflict.

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Character Quotes , Feelings Quotes

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Honor Quotes

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , America Quotes

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Character Quotes , Writing Quotes

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Beer Quotes

It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Mind Quotes

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Foundation Quotes

We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's sort of like as life goes, you have people that come in and out of your life.

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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

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The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

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