Temperament Quotes

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak.

I have a temperament where I know how to win. Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

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

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd.

If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.

I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side.

I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.

I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.