Character Judgment Quotes

Rather judge a person by his actions than by his words; because many act badly and speak splendidly.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends

George Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul in the first meeting he had in Slovenia. And then in the next meeting, he realized his soul was very dark.

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

You can't judge a character, and you're never going to always play characters that are morally sound or know right from wrong.

You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

Alexander Hamilton is a man devoid of every moral principle.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?

I feel like you can tell a lot by a person's shoes.

I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

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

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the...bell of an approaching looter.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.