Character Of A Man Quotes

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else’s traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

The more peculiarly his own a man’s character is, the better it fits him.

What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.