Arthur Helps Quotes

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I always say, if you want to judge a person, see what he/she laughs at.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

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.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

I am very interest in the human condition. That is what I love about acting. I like studying different people and their psychosis. I like discovering what makes them tick. I always find that with any character I play. I need to find out what makes them tick.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.