Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Character
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Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
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Whatever the word 'great' means, Dickens was what it means.
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A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.
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When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.