Charles Dickens Quotes, Character Quotes, Interesting Quotes

She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

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Tags : Al Hirschfeld Quotes , Moving Quotes , Character Quotes

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Character Quotes , Personality Quotes

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Character Quotes

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Character Quotes , Men 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 think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Writing Quotes , Character Quotes

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation. To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention.

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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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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Character Quotes , Firsts Quotes

I tend to enunciate pretty well. It's always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily - which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Character Quotes , Voice Quotes

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

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