A Quote by Henry Taylor

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Henry Taylor

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Henry Taylor
English - Dramatist
October 18, 1800 - March 27, 1886

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John Keats

The greatest test of a man's character is his tongue.

Oswald Chambers

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

John Wooden

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

Winston Churchill

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

Agatha Christie

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

George R. R. Martin

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I was obsessed with conducting, and I was conducting as much as I could, and I was studying as much as I could. I went to USC; I got an undergrad degree in violin and a master's degree in conducting.

David Newman

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Henry Ward Beecher

Missionary service is not only a test of faith but a real test of character.

ElRay L. Christiansen

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

Isabelle Adjani

I always felt the true test of a man's character is how he treats people he can't use.

Lee Corso

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Herbert von Karajan

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

Susan Sontag

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