Characters

Famous quotes containing the word characters:

“Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

“I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility—I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)