A character is a completely fashioned will. - (Novalis - Character)

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. - (Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Character)

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble - (Spurgeon, Charles Haddon - Character)

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s. - (Richter, Jean Paul - Character)

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. - (Strindberg, J. August - Character)

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. - (Hall, Manly - Character)

A man's character is his guardian divinity. - (Heraclitus - Character)

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow. - (Beecher, Henry Ward - Character)

A man's reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is. - (Miner, Jack - Character)

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. - (Lichtenberg, Georg C. - Character)

A rich man has no need of character. - (Proverb, Hebrew - Character)

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - (Lavater, Johann Kaspar - Character)

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ. - (Bovee, Christian Nevell - Character)

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon. - (Pandita, Saskya - Character)

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - (Vonnegut Jr., Kurt - Character)