C. S. Lewis Quotes

The core of people don't change... what you see is what you get.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

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

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

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Show me what a man hates and I'll show you what he is.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.