Quotes About Humours

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

HERE IS A GENERAL statement about Tibetan medicine: Human physiology is spoken of in terms of the three humours — wind, bile and phlegm. Where do disturbances originate? Wind, bile and phlegm imbalances occur respectively, from the 'three poisons', or primary mental afflictions, namely attachment, anger and ignorance.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours'.7

Dear creature, be good. Dear creature, make Lord G. happy. I am like a builder, madam. I am digging for a foundation. There is a good deal of rubbishy humours to remove; a little swampiness of soil: And I am only removing it, and digging deeper, to make my foundation sure. Take care, take care, niece: You may dig too deep. There may be springs: You may open, and never be able to stop them, till they have sapped your foundation. Take care, niece.

John Dryden wrote that a work of fiction is "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.

Whatever these futilities of mine may be, I have no intention of hiding them any more than I would a bald and grizzled portrait of myself. These are my humours, my opinions, things which I believe, not to be believed. My aim is reveal myself which may well be different tomorrow.

Metatron stood, like a statue clothed in deep green velvet, among the polished red-marble columns of the entrace hall, other families giving him a wide berth. That alone signified he was not in the best of humours.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.

what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him.

previous to the concept of humours, the practice of medicine was often nothing more than ceremonies to drive away evil spirits,

There were four 'humours', choler, sanguine, black bile and yellow bile, which in the ideal man were perfectly balanced. It was the task of the expert physician to adjust any imbalance. This may explain the fondness of medieval doctors, and their successors for generations to come, for blood-letting: ridding the body of an excess of blood could do nothing but good. 'Purging' by laxatives could be useful too, and drugs to induce vomiting.

As he contemplated the loveliness of her figure, it struck him as infinitely pathetic that even beauty such as hers should be so dependent on the sexual humours of this man or that man for its adequate appreciation.

Like children, we have dreamt, that what gratifies our desires, or contributes to our convenience to-day, will prove equally useful and satisfactory to-morrow, without reflecting on the growth of the body, the change of humours, the new objects, and the new situations, which every succeeding hour brings in its train.

Distant American colonies were presented as a cure. The poor could be purged. In 1622, the famous poet and clergyman John Donne wrote of Virginia in this fashion, describing the new colony as the nation's spleen and liver, draining the "ill humours of the body . . . to breed good bloud.