Character
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Whatever we may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Assessment, Character, Judgement
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Inglesi Italiano – diavolo incarnato. Italian Englishman – the devil incarnate.
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Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
Attitude, Character, Conservatism
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Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable, but as a member of the crowd he at once becomes a blockhead.
Character, Crowds, Individuality, Society
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Always choose the person with branded soul not with the branded clothes.
Character, Insight, Shallowness
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"It is said that one is the product of one's environment. Perhaps, for not all are affected equally, by the same environment."
Character, Environment, Individuality
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If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then is an empty desk a sign?
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Embedding the idea of original sin in a nation, is the best possible way to breed self-doubt – it suggests you can do little by way of good, because you were rotten from the start.
Character, Europe, Nations, Self Doubt
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A society that rewards those with masochistic tendencies, and indeed tells people with such tendencies that their tendencies are not just natural but a demonstration of virtue, is a society likely to produce a higher concentration of masochists than most.
Character, Guilt, Masochism, Society
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The essential characteristic of a nation is that its individuals must have many things in common, and must have forgotten many things as well.
Character, Commonality, Identity, Nationality
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Nothing discloses a real character like the use of power.
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If you want to discover your true opinion of anybody, observe the impression made on you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The people down there are poor enough and scared enough an ignorant enough have some common sense.
Character, Common Sense, Deprivation
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He was one of those human hors d'oeuvres that stimulate the public appetite for sensation without giving it much to feed on.
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He was hedged around with the cold brutality genius expects rather than excuses in her children; he never forgave and those who served him careful that there should be little to forgive.
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People get more like themselves: as they age, the arteries of their characters harden.
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His texture was shot with such a pattern of genuine saintliness, that one felt that whoever might hold the keys to Paradise, he, at least, possessed a private latchkey to that abode
Character, Clergy, Paradise, Saints
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Who is that woman with auburn hair and a rather effective belligerent gleam in her eyes? She looks as if she might have created the world in six days and destroyed it on the seventh.
Character, Determination, Power
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His insincerity was not deep enough to allow him to pose artificially and successfully as a leader of men and shaper of movements.
Character, Insincerity, Leadership, Politics, Poseur
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He had not the strength of character that keeps a man naturally in the forefront of affairs and gives his counsel’s sterling value.
Character, Leadership, Mediocrity, Weakness
