"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."

Character, Being, Party, Question

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."

Exlpore more Character quotes

"It takes grace to be a great soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Grace, Soul, Greatness, Virtue

"It is better to act right than seek right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Action, Right, Moral, Choice

"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Fairness, Kindness, Compassion, Treat

"Lack of courage leads to cruelty."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Courage, Cruelty, Fear, Morality

"Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Character, Integrity, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"I am selfish. I am brave."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Character, Selfishness, Bravery, Emotion

"Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Character, Inspirational, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Every soul is a soul. It is the motives, deeds and actions that define the personality of each soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Character, Soul, Motives, Deeds, Actions

"Most of your problems exist because your heart is hard and you are being arrogant."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Character, Heart, Arrogance, Problem, Truth

"Imitate the traits of your creator."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Character, Imitate, Traits, Creator, Values

Explore more quotes by Raymond Queneau

"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."

Fortune

"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."

Creation

"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."

Personality

"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."

Life

"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."

History

"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."

Identity

"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."

Experience

"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."

Politics

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

Fiction

"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

Act