Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Giving

• People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Understanding

• Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
  [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Judging

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

• False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Real, Character, Men

• A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, People, Care

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

• Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, World, Moments

• A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Doe

• When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men, Differences

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Chapter XI, 1688.

• A man without characteristics is a most insipid character.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Character, Men

  "Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

• The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images; we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Plato, Writing, Character

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