Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Character
Characterless as a china shepherdess.
—Anonymous
Character, like porcelain ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change after it is burned in.
—Henry Ward Beecher
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrine stanza—read it forward, backward, or across, it spells the same thing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
—Fulke Greville
Your character at present is like a person in a plethora, absolutely dying from too much health.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan