character traits quotes

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.