Quotes About Temperament

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

He was terribly afraid that happiness might be a habit, or a quality knitted into the temperament, or it might be something you learn when you're a child, a kind of language harder than Latin or Greek, that you should have a grasp on by the time you're seven. What if you haven't got that grasp? What if you're in some way happiness-stupid, happiness-blind?

Well, you know how it is, some people are born with sour temperaments and they use the misfortunes in their lives as an excuse for them.

I don't now if you noticed , but the guy is a real jerk

Anyone who wishes to learn to enjoy life must find friends of the same type of temperament, and take as much trouble to gain and keep their friendship as wives take to keep their husbands.

You're far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You're far better suited as a wife.

I never get sick. Besides, I have this compulsion to take care of ailing Travises." "You would be the only one. We Travises are bad-tempered as hell when we're sick." "You're not all that nice when you're well either.

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus.

America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

Cool isn't about where you go. It's a way of looking at the world.

Aura, I'm really patient, but I'm not a bloody saint.

What an ocean of boredom might be saved if science could but give us a barometer foretelling us our changes of temperament! How much more to our comfort we could plan our lives, knowing that on Monday, say, we should be feeling frivolous; on Saturday "dull to bad-tempered.

The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood-thirsty when in a boat. 

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Personality is a skill.

One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude.

Attitude doesn't always mean its a bad thingthis what makes your personality

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the one that suits temperaments like mine. The fictions of my imagination (as it later developed) may weary me, but they don't hurt or humiliate. Impossible lovers can't cheat on us, or smile at us falsely, or be calculating in their caresses. They never forsake us, and they don't die or disappear. --The book of Disquiet