Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”

— Bryant McGill

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness…

— Anonymous

“He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.”

— Louise Penny

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament”

— Marcel Proust

“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence…

— Charles Todd

“And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation…

— Samuel Beckett

“…he seems devastatingly, impossibly handsome, but so aloof and unreachable that it is almost as if she has her nose pressed against a glass…

— Georgia Le Carre

“I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my…

— Emily Brontë

“Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon