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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather1873–1947Alexander’s Bridge (1912) Ch. 8
Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.
Nicolas Chamfort1740–1794Maximes et pensées (1805)
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“The Simple Art of Murder”, The Atlantic Monthly (December 1944)
- Courage
My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977My Autobiography (1964)
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Ivanov, Act III, sc. vi (1887)
A human being should be entirely beautiful: the face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by AstroffIn context
- Beauty
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Nature
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936Charles Dickens (1906)
- Leadership
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter XIXIn context
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie1890–1976The ABC Murders (1936)
Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may possess.
Agatha Christie1890–1976A Murder is Announced (1950)
I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994Journals (2002)
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Le Coq et l’Arlequin (1918)
This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Woman in White (1860), First Epoch, The Story Begun by Walter Hartright, IIn context
- Courage
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter VII, § 36
- Happiness