George Henry Lewes Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Men, Palaces

• The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without intelligence we should be brutes - but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Rose, Blanche, and Violet". Book by George Henry Lewes, Volume 1, p. 8-9, 1848.

• I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Play, Giving

  John Forster, George Henry Lewes (1896). “Dramatic Essays”

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