Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “The language I have learnt these forty years,
    My native English, now I must forgo,
    And now my tongue’s use is to me no more
    Than an unstringèd viol or a harp.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

    “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.... Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)