Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter…

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when…

— Oliver Heaviside

You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access…

— Neil Gaiman

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential…

— Brennan Manning

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

— John Major

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it…

— Jane Austen

A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable…

— P. D. James

This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!

— William Shakespeare

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with…

— Henry Bessemer

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly…

— Elizabeth Fraser

Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and…

— Anthony Trollope

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have…

— Edmund Burke

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

— John Molson

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It…

— Simon Callow