Bernard Malamud Quotes

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

I have always believed that your face is a mirror to your nature.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Is she kind as she is fair?

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Your character is who you really are.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Adversity defines true character.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.

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

I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.