George Meredith Quotes

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

None of us wants to be judged by our worst act on our worst day, and we consistently judge Burr for that. He was not a perfect man, but he's not a villain. He's a dude, just a guy.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and don't always make the right choices.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

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

They're people who had flaws and who had affairs and had sex and had scandals, and very rarely do we look at the totality of our heroes' lives.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

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

To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

Mankind thinks either too much or too little of sin.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.