Top 523 Temperament Quotes & Sayings

[ Hillary Clinton] is the one who has a terrible temperament.

The repeat run of Fawlty Towers (BBC2) drew bigger audiences than ever and deservedly so. Statistical surveys reveal that only the television critic of the Spectator is incapable of seeing the joke, which is that Basil Fawlty has the wrong temperament to be a hotel proprietor, just as some other people have the wrong temperament to be television critics.

Our genetic heritage endows each of us with a series of emotional set-points that determines our temperament. But the brain circuitry involved is extraordinarily malleable; temperament is not destiny.

Music inflames temperament.

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

I have such a temperament that I cannot do anything in excess.

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.

I think temperament is my single greatest asset.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the temperament to be president.

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

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.

I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

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.

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.

The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

My friends tell me that I have the wrong temperament for politics.

I couldn't have built the great companies I've built if I didn't have a strong temperament. And she's got a weak temperament. She [Hillary Clinton ] is a weak person.

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

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

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective store?

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.

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

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

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

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

I love sports, but I never had the temperament for it.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament.

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

I have a temperament where I know how to win.

I think I have a great temperament.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Well, a daughter is someone you've grown up with, right? So you know her temperament, you know what makes her angry and how to deal with that person. You're meeting your daughter-in-law when she is an adult already and you don't quite know what her temperament is like, so it takes time to gel.

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