Temperament quotes

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◆ I don't have a short temper, I just have a quick reaction to bullshit.

- Prateek Jain100

◆ The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

- Alice Miller99

◆ There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

- Henry Van Dyke99

◆ Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

- Hans Hofmann99

◆ Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

- Madeleine L'Engle99

◆ I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

- Ted Kotcheff99

◆ No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

- Zane Grey99

◆ We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

- Cyril Connolly99

◆ Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

- Gilbert K Chesterton99

◆ My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.

- Eva Gabor99

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

- Paul Cezanne99

◆ Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

- John Burroughs99

◆ We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy

- Cyril Connolly99

◆ A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment

- John J Ingalls99