Great Character Description Quotes

#1. An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

George Herbert

#2. He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dressed in brown polyester pants, cheap brown shoes, and a light tan shirt. He looked like someone had put a wig on a giraffe and run it through the local Target.

John Connolly

#3. There are moments of sincerity. Those moments float away like bubbles but he takes the trouble to dip the wand in the soap and blow them through.

Carole Radziwill

#4. Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur.

John Connolly

#5. Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Carl Jung

#6. I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Joan Benoit

#7. And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

David Milch

#8. Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

James A. Baldwin

#9. Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were
possibly
not clean.

Henry James

#10. Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

Henry Clarence Thiessen

#11. It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

David Levithan

#12. [H]e looked like a real bruiser as he stepped from his car, his big sunglasses giving the impression that a large bug had evolved to the point that it could wear a suit.

John Connolly