Beverley Nichols Quotes

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped With the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper!

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

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

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

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

A forte always makes a foible.

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

Is she kind as she is fair?

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Never trust anyone who buttons their top button.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.