Character

Famous quotes containing the word character:

    A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country—and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
    Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)