Negative Traits Quotes

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Great men are almost always bad men.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

Welsh people are loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls.

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

It's always more interesting to play the villain.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well.

[He] has the temper of a hedgehog, the adhesiveness of a barnacle, the vanity of a peacock, the vindictiveness of a Corsican, and the duplicity of the devil.

I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.

The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered they lack any of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display.

I don't really have any traits that I deplore. I get annoyed with myself sometimes, but that's about it.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

[Describing Richard Nixon:] ... an unpleasant man.... What I never understood is why he became a politician.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.