Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.

  I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.

  There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,—that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.

Epictetus (Circa 60 a d): Of the Cynic Philosophy. Chap. xxii.

  The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): The Talisman. Introduction.

  Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): Among my Books. First Series. Dryden.