#trait

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ↗

— Thomas Dekker

#hate #kings #love #may #old

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#came #drama #drama school #extrovert #how

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#monarch #noblest #reveal #trait #true

Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia. ↗

— Brian Cox

#australia #australians #beautiful #believe #country

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility. ↗

— Bob Crosby

#bing #brother #concern #his #i

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house. ↗

— Willa Ford

#house #i #i do #paint #portraits

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #corner #gogh #higher #higher level

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #book #come #do not judge #ends

... she suddenly looks different to Olympia, physically different, as though a portrait has been alterred. And Olympia thinks that possibly such adjustments might have to be made for everyone she knows. Upon meeting a person, a sketch is formed, and for the life of the relationship, however intimate or not, a portrait is painted, with oils or pastels or with black ink or with watercolor, and only at a persons's death can the portraits be considered finished. Perhaps not even at the person's death. ↗

— Anita Shreve

#death