Distemper Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. — Ambrose Bierce
Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age… — Gerald Early
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou… — John Owen
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a… — Mark Twain
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul… — John Pym
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed… — Bill Moyers
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate… — John Dryden
I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some… — Mary Wortley Montagu
O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience. — William Shakespeare
Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over… — William Shakespeare
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady. — William Wilberforce
[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes

Who Wrote These Distemper Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 13 Distemper Quotes as follows: