#Personality Quotes

“Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.”

“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”

“An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.”

“Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)”

“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”

“I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.”

“Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.”

“If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.”

“A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.”

“I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”

“When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.”

“For I am nothing if not critical.”

“But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.”

“But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.”

“A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.”

“He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up he did in the same matter-of-fact sensible way; without a touch of imagination, without a sparkle of brilliancy, but with the inexplicable niceness of his type.”

“He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.”

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

“I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.”

“In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.”

“I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

“Mom is a planner, an organizer. She's very strong and practical. She's the person that'll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.”

“I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”

“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”

“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”

“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”

“Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.”

“Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.”

“To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.”

“Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.”

“I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.”

“I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.”

“I don't drink much alcohol. If it doesn't taste like candy or sparkles, I usually don't drink it.”

“Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.”

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

“I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.”

“I'm a pretty nice dude. I have fun, and people take it the wrong way.”

“I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.”

“For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.”

“People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.”

“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

“When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.”

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

“You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”

“Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.”

“When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'”

“I like organizing things. I like organizing my closets, so that I know where everything is. And and I used to color code it.”

“My imagination is a twisted place.”

“I was always making my friends laugh but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.”

“I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.”