Quotes About Temperament

for I see in Christ not merely the essentials of the supreme romantic type, but all the accidents, the wilfulnesses even, of the romantic temperament also. He was the first person who ever said to people that they should live 'flower-like lives.' He fixed the phrase.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

I've often wondered why Nature, widely publicized being infinite in its wisdom, should have made the grave mistake of creating redheads, always so impulsive and quick on the trigger.

It is never difficult to distinguish between with a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

What I mean is, if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologize and go away. So I stood by to hear just how the A.T. had affected Clarence, the Cat's Friend, ready for anything.

One of the things which have caused the making of motion pictures to be listed among the Dangerous Trades is the fact that it has been found impossible to dispense with the temperamental female star. . . . Every Hortensia Burwash picture grossed five million, but in the making of them she was extremely apt, if thwarted in some whim, to run amok , sparing neither age nor sex.

if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologise and go away.

All Achilles's emotions seemed to be varying shades of anger.

He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father.

That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so far -- and it takes just the least little thing to push them over the brink. Anybody. Even your grandmother. I know.

Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

You know me, Robert, when my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier.

When my passions flare, diplomacy is not my métier

Todo padre sabe que, desde el momento de su nacimiento, un niño es tranquilo y plácido o, en cambio, irritable y difícil.

We seem by temperament primed to respond to life in either a negative or a positive emotional register. The tendency toward a melancholy or upbeat temperament, like that toward timidity or boldness, emerges within the first year of life, a fact that strongly suggests it too is genetically determined.

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."

Our actions determine our dispositions.

Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him.

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

When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people.

mong the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of his voice. I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose. But when I heard that little natural change in his tone my mind went back (I can't say why) to the happy day when I first owned that I loved him. I burst out crying.