People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Menander

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Confucius