Characters

Famous quotes containing the word characters:

“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
—Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)

“Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)