Famous quotes containing the words character and/or biography:
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)