temperament quotes

I have the satiric temperament: when I am laughing at anyone I am generally rather amusing, but when I am praising anyone, I am always deadly dull.

- Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) Beerbohm
  In The Saturday Review, 28 May.

Thereisprobablyagreater premiumontemperamentfor a batsman than for any player in any branch of sport.

- Sir Don(ald George) Bradman
  The Art of Cricket.

I am actually not at all a man of science† I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador, an adventurer.

- Sigmund Freud
  Letter to Wilhelm Fliess, Feb.

Artistic temperament†sometimes seems a battleground for a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

- Madeleine married name Mrs Hugh Franklin L'Engle
  A Severed Wasp.

   It is on occasions such as these that I thank God for my sanguine temperament, which refuses to allow me to believe in disaster until it is finally manifest.

- Dervla Murphy
  Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.