true character Quotes

“So [Miss Emily] vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.”

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.”

“‘Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.‘”

“I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.”

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”

“Your spirit is the true shield.”

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters. [...] But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand [...] is the most abject treachery.”

“I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private.”

“PAULINA Good queen, my lord, Good queen; I say good queen; And would by combat make her good, so were I A man, the worst about you.”

“I think [Steve’s] an outstanding young man. He is talented, bright, and compassionate. He’s very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.”

″‘I’m not a box,’ she said ‘I don’t have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.‘”

“Mr Elliot is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself;”