Dad: Bug bites build character. Calvin: Yeah, and last year you said diarrhea builds character. Dad: So think what a fine young man you’re growing up to be. Calvin: If all this character doesn’t kill me first. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Character Quotes
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jelly beans.
A nice person is neither too tall nor to short, looks clean and cheerful, has no prominent features, makes no difficulties, is never displaced, sits bodkin, is never foolishly affronted, and is void of affectations… A nice person is clear of trumpery little passions, acknowledges superiority, delights in talents, shelters humility, pardons adversity, forgives deficiency, […]
Calvin: Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.
A team that has character doesn’t need stimulation.
No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
I’ll never discuss my lawyer’s character in his absence, so let’s discuss his absence of character!
Everyone can play the mummer’s part, and represent an honest personage on the stage; but inwardly, within his own bosom, where all is permitted us, where all is concealed, to keep a duel role there, that’s the point.
