The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

For me, it’s a purity thing about the joke itself. It’s a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that’s a legitimate item you have there. For me, it’s nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It’s just not what I’m in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Character is destiny.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.