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

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Danielle Steel

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Sandra Cisneros

It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
Alfred Marshall

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.
Alfred Marshall

Character is more important than talent.
Edwin Louis Cole

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Tacitus

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.
Sean Connery

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
Paul Bryant

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James Monroe

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
O. J. Simpson

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
Peter Jennings

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller

It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Alan Alda

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
Salma Hayek