Mark Twain Quotes on Character
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I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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Pilgrim's Progress, about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
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The Jew is not a disturber of the peace of any country. Even his enemies will concede that. He is not a loafer, he is not a sot, he is not noisy, he is not a brawler nor a rioter, he is not quarrelsome. In the statistics of crime his presence is conspicuously rare - in all countries. With murder and other crimes of violence he has but little to do: he is a stranger to the hangman. In the police court's daily long roll of 'assaults' and 'drunk and disorderlies' his name seldom appears ...
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The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
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There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.