Actors Quote by Bette Davis

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness…

— Lucille Ball

When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Temperament is the thermometer of character.

— Honore de Balzac

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate…

— Oscar Wilde

“The whole personality is determined by the temperament and character together. Temperament influences the development of the character to a certain point, but it…

— Zoe McKey

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

— Seamus Heaney

Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a…

— Anonymous

I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed…

— Hannah Hurnard

“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from your experiences.…

— Helen Fisher

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

— Andre Maurois