#temperament

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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

— Oscar Wilde

#result #temperament #unique #work

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

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

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

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#hand #material #stamped #style #temperament

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 Miller

#children #defend #fact #less #mistreat

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

— Iris Murdoch

#end #good #in the end #just #matter