disposition quotes

   A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

-Joseph Addison
  In The Spectator, no.1,1 Mar.

A feeling generally exists that the condition and disposition of the Working Class is a rather ominous matter at present; that something ought to be said, something ought to be done, in regard to it.

-Thomas Carlyle
  Chartism, ch.1.

Troops always ready to act, my well-filled treasury, and the liveliness of my dispositionthese were my reasons for making war on MariaTheresa.

- the Great Frederick II
  Letter to Voltaire.

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves.

- Anthony Dymoke Powell
  A Buyer's Market, ch.4.