Top 32 Quotes About Character Over Beauty
#1. I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.
Troye Sivan
#2. Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.
Joshua Jackson
#3. I love the walking contradiction of the body. I want to make corporeal characters, corporeal writing, I want to bring the intensities and contradictions and beauty and violence and stench and desire and astonishing physicality of the body back into literature.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#4. The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
Matthew Arnold
#5. It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
Plutarch
#6. There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#7. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope
#9. Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond
#10. A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
Thomas More
#11. I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#12. The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.
Pablo Schreiber
#13. There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#14. What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
Ann Radcliffe
#15. I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.
Sarah Hay
#16. Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character.
Gregory Maguire
#17. And if she wasn't precisely pretty, she had a force of character that is often more attractive than simple beauty.
Diana Gabaldon
#18. The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#19. I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ.
Swami Vivekananda
#20. Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.
Criss Jami
#21. I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.
(As quoted in Put Your Big Girl Panties on and Deal with it, Roz Van Meter, 2007)
Susan Sarandon
#22. Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#23. Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Jacqueline Bisset
#24. Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.
August Bournonville
#25. Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.
Anil Sinha
#26. The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.
Anuj
#27. I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus
#28. The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. With flamenco I was transported into a world where everyone is beautiful, because beauty is in everything, the glorious and the ugly; because flamenco celebrates living, through the cries of pain and the cries of joy, the symmetry of a young face and the character of an old face.
Nellie Bennett
#31. PLUTO is the limit for me.
Someday they will spell victory with my T. That day is Today. Don't wait for the green light. Rise, poise, beauty, youth, wear a smile, put some style, straighten those shoulders and walk out BOLD.
Me
#32. There are so many great characters because one of the things that makes Batman fantastic is that Batman is tragic. I've said this elsewhere; I've said it over and over again, but the beauty of the character is that he's a Don Quixote.
Greg Rucka