Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Faith, Character, Giving

• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Smile, Spiritual, Character

• Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Looks, May

• The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Horse, Laughter, Character

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Real, Character, Greatness

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Men, Voice

• As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Men, Manners

• Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Ends, Decided

• Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Softness

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

• Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Passion, Pride

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

• The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Truth, Character, Hands

• Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Grief, Character, Joy

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Calmness, Persons

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Home, Character, Doors

• The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Giving, Giver

• Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Buttons, Dresses

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• As your enemies and your friends, so are you

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Enemy

• Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Grief, Character, Men

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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