quotes about Temperament
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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
-- Artur Rodzinski -
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
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Temperament is the thermometer of character.
-- Honore de Balzac -
British girls are as temperamental as Americans.
-- Ivor Novello -
Art is nature as seen through a temperament.
-- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot -
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When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.
-- L. Tom PerrySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
-- Logan Pearsall SmithSource : Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
-- Mason Cooley -
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
-- Max Lucado -
content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance ...
-- Myrtle Reed -
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
-- Robertson Davies -
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.
-- Sydney, Lady MorganSource : Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.17
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
-- Ted Kotcheff -
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
-- Tilda Swinton -
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I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
-- Tom Lehrer -
Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
-- Wayne RooneySource : "Wayne's World Cup?". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.
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I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.
-- Heather O'Neill -
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Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.
-- Luljeta Lleshanaku -
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
-- Philip Levine -
Markets and exchanges are merely mechanisms which reflect the temperament of man
-- Luke Johnson -