Charles Dickens Quotes

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Character is perfectly educated will.

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

Character is the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next.

Sleep. It's like giving yourself a massage.

Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

When character is lost, rules and punishments cannot take its place.

Integrity is the value we set on ourselves.

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.