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Quotations by Subject: Character (40 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
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