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Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her principal study for years to come. She had begun as he had, with good looks and an excitable temperament, and the rest was the result of accessible popular novels and dressing-room conversation culled from a slightly older set. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blasé sophistication. She had lived in a larger city and had slightly an advantage in range. But she accepted his pose--it was one of the dozen little conventions of this kind of affair. He was aware that he was getting this particular favor now because she had been coached; he knew that he stood for merely the best game in sight, and that he would have to improve his opportunity before he lost his advantage. So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone's life when character is fixed forever.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

It is important to know you are not above or below anyone.

It is nice to be important but it is more important to be nice

It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

It is not the class you come from, but that with which you carry yourself that matters most.

It is never too late to show true character.

It is not what a man gets, But what a man is, That he should think of. He should first think of his character, And then of his condition. He that has character need have no fear of his condition. Character will draw condition after it.

It isn't enough to be beautiful, James thought he heard her say, though with the ringing in his ears he couldn't know for sure. Beautiful is for other people. You have to be something for you.

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

It is only when you are confident about your own self, that the society begins to hail you the way you want.

It is our duty to guide the future of our nation now, don't just say that they are directionless, characterless or any other less, add your part in this matter, be the character & direction you want to see in them, be the big shining sun for them that they could shin like a star in your light.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

It is our duty to guide the future of our nation now, don't just say that they are directionless, characterless or any other less people, add your part in this matter, be the character & direction you want to see in them, be the big shining sun for them that they could shine like stars in your light.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

It is the character of the road you travel gives you wisdom not the length of the road!

It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too.

It is true that breasts can induce sexual tension in men, but truer than that is the fact, that breasts are the primary and healthiest source of nutrition for the infant, so, if men can't use their higher mental faculty of self-restraint at the sight of breastfeeding at public places, then it's not the women who need to change their breastfeeding place, it's the men who need to work on their character.

It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.

It seems likely to me now that the very element in my character that took possession of me there on top of that mountain, the fierce independence that was suddenly mine, to remain inside me no matter how it scared me when I tumbled, was an inheritance. Indeed it was my chief inheritance from my mother, who was braver. Yet, while she knew that independent spirit so well, it was what she agonizingly tried to protect me from, in effort to warn me against. It was what she shared, it made the strongest bond between us and the strongest tension. To grow up is to fight for it, to grow old is to lose it after having possessed it.

It makes your buttocks ache walking on flat ground all the time.

It's a choice to occasionally let go of the urge to feel good in an instant in favor of the long-term goal of shaping our internal state and character which will eventually translate into a good quality of life.

It may be your nature to be good to others but it is most people's character to take advantage of others when the opportunity permits.

It’s better to be individual than a clone of someone else.

It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

It's not about grades, or saaviness, or sex appeal. It's all about grit. The strength of your character is the strength of your character determines your success more than anything else.

It’s not what you have, but who you are that counts.

It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.

Its not the content nor context,rather, its the character that masses heed to.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.

it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.

It takes work to build a strong internal filter and an empowering view of the world

It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit's worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

I used to take my morning tea at her kiosk and I took an interest in what she was doing. I later learnt she was taking care of her grandchildren. Sadly, she was taken ill and had to close her nylon-walled smoky shack. But all the wit and cunning of the character came from her.

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...

...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had my pride stomped on, witnessed unforgivable acts, and heard words that hurt so much I withed that they would not replay in my head, but they did. In all these moments--some tear-soaked, some life-defining, but all character-building moments--I have felt vulnerable. And I believe these feelings of vulnerability--when a person feels scared and alone and overwhelmed and pissed off, wen the sting of unfairness bites deep--while miserable to live through, are the basis for writing compelling fiction.

I've done things I deeply regret, but helping you isn't, and never will be one of them.

I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.