Sanguine Quotes

Sanguine Quote of the day

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind of anger before. It was the quiet kind. The dangerous kind.

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.

Together we can take this world, and all those whose knees have never felt the sting of the earth will bow to us

Come now, Pendragon Princess. You didn’t get dressed up to die, we both know that.

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

I don't need a man to be happy.

Chaos lifted on wings and flew.