Character Quotes

"All my movies got screwed up because of my personality."

"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."

"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

"Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being."

"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."

"Character matters leadership descends from character."

"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"Intelligence is a moral category."

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."