Disposition Quotes

The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

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

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.

There's nothing particularly dark in my past... I live in the light. My disposition is basically happy. I have a good life.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

You owe others a happy disposition

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved.

A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who is mean and irascible.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.