Quotes About Temperament

22. If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant

I'm like those placid dogs a family buys when the dog they choose first is too high strung. I'm the pet's pet.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

She'd only set my mouth, giving me her taste for called saints, good books, and angry men.

In particular, he named three kinds of troubles that could beset a person with a nervous temperament: poor weather, isolation or idleness, and stressful events.

Do you know what I like about you, Elizabeth?" She couldn't even possibly imagine. "You're as kind and good a person as they come," he continued, "but unlike most kind and good people, you don't preach or cloy, or try to make everyone else kind and good ... And underneath all that kindness and goodness, you seem to possess a wicked sense of humor, no matter how hard you occasionally try to suppress it.

Iris is not pleasant to live with when she is in ill humor and Daisy is not pleasant to live with when she is in good humor.

termagant tendencies?

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

Sometimes ignoring people's anger made them calm down.

You've got a good side?" "I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.

The long feud between them has a certain piquant irony, because their affinity of temperament is as striking as their antipathy. In both of them the ideas of the Enlightenment were uneasily at war with the emotions of the Romantic Movement. Both had genius, and both were supreme egoists who thought that genius and the pursuit of glory put them above the ordinary rules.

Bear] was curious and patient, but his fear could whip-crack into rage in an instant.

Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

a gentleman today—however we may characterize him—may find his environment less congenial to his temperament.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

The environment was so strong, so dramatic. Tragedy is all over Calabria; it's in the air. All this corresponds to my temperament.